Word: graspingly
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...whom are played off against each other in unlimited combinations and permutations. Needless to say, these character relationships and the development of Miss Hellman's philosophy through them take up the better part of the play's two and a half hours; one leaves the theatre with a distinct grasp of five or six rather extraordinary personalities and a vague impression that some sort of tenuous plot has been woven around them...
...with physical growth. "It is probable," he writes, "that all mental life has a motor basis and a motor origin. The non-mystical mind [i.e., the mind when not engaged in pure reverie] must always take hold. Even in the rarefied realms of conceptual reasoning we speak of intellectual grasp . . . Thinking might be defined as a comprehension and manipulation of meanings. Accordingly, thought has its beginnings in infancy...
...recent years, Lodge has been recognized as one of the ablest men in the Senate. In two important areas of policy -military affairs and foreign affairs-his grasp is especially firm. When Vandenberg fell ill and retired from active leadership, most observers thought the mantle of Republican leadership in foreign policy would fall on Cabot Lodge. But somehow, the mantle never fitted...
...fought harder to grasp this prize than Railroad Juggler Robert R. Young, who owns 51% of MoPac's outstanding common stock. For two years he has opposed a plan, tentatively approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission, which would wipe out the common-stock interests, give control of the reorganized road to the bondholders. Last week the fight erupted in a rash of full-page ads across the nation and a flurry of charges and countercharges at an ICC hearing...
...spectacle (as a flea circus or a cock-fight is). It is an exercise in articulative facility and quick wit. It is intended to entertain no one except the participants. The relation you find between lack of spectators and last week's double loss to Yale is beyond the grasp of all natural intellects...