Word: graspingly
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...presidency seemed to be in his grasp. The C.I.O. was noisily for him; Franklin Roosevelt said he wanted him as running mate again. But, for political expediency, Roosevelt sacrificed him. Humiliated, Henry Wallace hung around though he had been cast off: he licked his wounded spirit in the job of Secretary of Commerce. In 1945, he saw Harry Truman step into the White House job which he might have...
...show the capital had seen in many a month. Its big, rambling "American Procession: 1492-1900" filled twelve galleries and six corridors, and was as exciting and various as the history it recounted. Moreover, there wasn't a painting that the average summer visitor couldn't grasp at first blink...
Already the Communists had paid for their attack on Korea; when Truman said "I have ordered the Seventh Fleet" to Formosa, he denied Communism a rich strategic prize that had been in its grasp. The fact that Douglas MacArthur, who has long understood the Communist intentions in Asia, was defending Korea meant that the Reds would not get that country cheaply...
...doubly difficult to find replacements. "There is no doubt in my mind of Mr. Pike's intelligence, integrity, and complete devotion to the national welfare," said Smyth. In the strange world of the atom, Pike-a retired Manhattan mining and utilities financier-had shown "a remarkable capacity to grasp the scientific and technical features," added Smyth.* His two fellow commissioners backed...
...time, before he reached the dugout, he replied with a gesture from the international sign language of obscenity which Boston sport-writers primly described as a "vulgar motion." Then, while waiting his turn at bat, Ted added one more gesture that even the most proper Bostonians were sure to grasp: he turned and spat disgustedly in the direction of the grandstand...