Word: graspingly
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...infantryman who fought Germans in the snow will stop at this early point in Brave Company, a first novel by New Zealander Guthrie Wilson. Of all the books about the war so far written, it gives the truest picture of infantry fighting and living, has the clearest, least arty grasp of the fighting man's whole response to his smashing experience...
...Navy in its desperate attempt to make its points. At Annapolis he absorbed the great U.S. tradition of sea power-the tradition that led U.S. Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan to explain to the British how they won and held their empire, the tradition which explains Winston Churchill's grasp of strategic problems...
...Difficult Years offers a masterly Chaplinesque performance by Actor Spadaro, as the pathetic, sometimes ludicrous hero. And Director Zampa tells his quiet, straightforward story with compassion, humor, biting irony and a firm grasp of character. It is a story full of meaning for a world still under totalitarian clouds...
...that this is an especially terrible war. It is so for reasons which every American must understand if we are to grasp the extent, the nature and the immense complexities of our problem in Asia. Much of this war is alien to the American tradition and shocking to the American mind. For our men in Korea are waging this war as they are forced to wage it and as they will be forced to wage any war against the Communists anywhere in Asia...
...soldiers will continue to be forced to war in this fashion-until our political and military leaders acquire and apply an understanding of war in Asia that they have not as yet displayed in Korea. Above all, our leaders must grasp one quite simple fact: war against the Communists of Asia cannot be won-not really won-by military means alone...