Word: graspingly
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...exaggeration. Since 1940, when de Gaulle first mortgaged France to the overwhelming power of the Anglo-Saxons, this gravest concern has been to preserve French liberty of action without trying to go it alone. The long arm of American support has fingers at the end, and it is the grasp of these fingers that de Gaulle wishes to loosen. Yet no one knows better than he how little France would gain from isolation...
...Power is where power goes," Johnson confidently told a friend before taking office as Vice President. He was wrong-power has slipped from his grasp. Like every Vice President, he is president of the Senate. He is also chairman of the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity, the National Aeronautics and Space Council and the Peace Corps National Advisory Council. He sits in on meetings of the Cabinet and is a member of the National Security Council. But all of this together adds up to only a fraction of his old power and influence. He is free...
...said one of Bradford's aides. This could mean that Powers has already lost the strike that he began. But, perhaps encouraged by a pan-union demonstration of solidarity at the New York Times Building. Powers went right on acting like a man who feels victory in his grasp...
...King in 1941. She was a dietitian at Grasmere's Moore General Hospital when her husband ran for Governor, quit her job to help organize women volunteers for the campaign, filled in for him on several speaking engagements. An avid reader and ardent gardener, she has an intelligent grasp of problems, but foresees no great change in her way of life now that she is the Governor's wife. New Hampshire has no governor's mansion, so official social life will be limited. Says she simply: "I will just be a good wife to the Governor...
...thing he knows and loves-engines. But when he begins to fix the Sand Pebble's decrepit coal-burning monstrosity-and, worse, agonizingly tries to teach a Chinese coolie how steam drives the pistons-he puts the whole ship in an uproar. The Chinese are not supposed to grasp theory. Engine work is coolie labor. The intricate fabric of protective illusion cannot bear the slightest intrusion of reality...