Word: graspingly
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...same. But the President of the U.S., who came before a joint session of Congress this week to deliver his message on the State of the Union, was different. Before Dwight Eisenhower had flipped four pages of his looseleaf notebook, the difference came clear. It was a new grasp of the nature of the challenge before the U.S., and in the grasp the problems themselves seemed less awesome...
...connected with the Nationalist government - confessed to being an "accessory thug" of the "reactionary looting class." Next came reports in "creative history"; one of the most successful told how the Chinese Communist Party had united China and won the war against Japan. Anyone who failed to grasp this was rebuked for not being a "clear-thinking person...
...fail to grasp the significance of the design used as backdrop to the portrait of the new First Lady on your cover ... Is it wallpaper used in the White House...
...moved up fast because of his ability to grasp complicated situations, make calm, correct decisions and stick to them under pressure. Once, Studebaker's Treasurer Albert Russel Erskine wanted to install a new accounting system in EMF; Vance objected that it wouldn't work. He half expected to be fired. Instead, when Erskine became president, he made Vance assistant treasurer. Vance moved to South Bend in 1919, slowly worked up every rung of the Studebaker ladder. By the time depression struck, he was production vice president and a director, while Paul Hoffman, now president of the Ford Foundation...
...twinkle in his eyes. He brings so much warmth and humor to the part of Gramps Northrup that the audience barely has time to notice the other characters or even the general story. From the time he appears until the final scene Moore has the audience completely within his grasp, making them laugh and making them cry without any effort...