Word: graspingly
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Once again the CRIMSON due to its usual haste and short-sightedness has failed to grasp the long-term significance of a project. I am referring to your editorial condemning the Corporation's decision to erect a new Varsity Club. In a high-handed journalistic manner you have stated that Allston Burr '89 had merely indicated interest in the project. Those close to him realized that he had his heart set on erecting such a building for many years. He was a man of such calibre, however, that he left the money with no strings attached, hoping the University would...
...strengthen your lips, grasp them firmly in the fist and pull them out like a handful of cotton-wool. Do this continually until they ache...
...book a whole fistful of narrative threads. It was a year of almost continuous desert warfare, of disaster in Greece and Crete, of crippling losses to U-boats, of devastating blitz, of almost unbroken defeat. What is much more remarkable than their coherent presentation is Churchill's astonishing grasp of innumerable and vastly complex situations as they arose and developed. The greatness of his leadership has never been better documented...
...diplomat had stated a truth about Russia which many Western observers have failed to grasp: the Kremlin cares deeply about the morale of the Russian people. Thanks to censorship and secret police, Stalin does not have to worry about "public opinion" in the Western political sense. But morale matters, because it has an effect on how hard the people work, how ready they are to fight, how willingly they submit to the rule of Russia's dictatorship...
...socialite Philadelphia family and is a Manhattan corporation lawyer, a United World Federalist, an avid student of history and an expert in international economics. When appointed to the Air Commission, he knew little about air power but he impressed all comers with his conscientious fairness and his ability to grasp and marshal facts. After the Finletter Commission report was finished he was appointed head of the EGA mission to Britain, stayed on until last summer...