Word: graspings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...means and measures should be employed to affect the readmission of the West Point cadets who cheated. We are going to need all of them; for, as we have watched and fiddled, the Russians have wrenched military supremacy from our faltering grasp. Now, maybe our only chance for victory in armed conflict with the Soviets boils down to one strategy: CHEAT...
...Recalls Associate Editor James Atwater, who wrote this week's cover story: "I saw a very agile and retentive mind at work." Nation Editor Marshall Loeb, who edited the story, joined Carter on a campaign swing last January. "He was never glib," says Loeb. "He had a phenomenal grasp of the issues." Reporter-Researchers Eileen Chiu and Anne Hopkins steeped themselves in Carter's background and closely followed his progress through the year...
Brown's choice as Defense Secretary pleased many bureaucrats at both the Pentagon and State Department. Some military men regard him as too "soft," but others see him as an effective administrator with a superb grasp of weapons systems. As one of his first official acts, Brown is expected-but not certain-to advise Carter to go ahead with production of at least some B-l bombers. Says a friend of Brown's: "He wants to maintain a strong defense, but without hatchet-waving histrionics." At the same time, Brown will push hard to break the current impasse...
...easy to gauge how far Read's reach has exceeded his grasp. In less than 350 pages he has stretched to cover a family saga of three generations, on location in Poland and France, with side trips to Spain, the U.S. and England. He has encapsulated the causes and consequences of one depression and two wars, not to mention their fury. As a philosopher-novelist he has tried to see to it that all the Great Ideas are discussed: Christianity, Marxism, Art, Love, Innocence and Corruption...
...reverse sides of the pages of a paper handed in late in my course, Humanities 118, "Myths of Creation." I can only surmise that some student, working in a Milton archive and pressed for time, seized upon the nearest available paper, unaware of the momentous discovery within his grasp. For obviously what the student had unwittingly stumbled upon was a fair copy of a previously unknown fragment of Paradise Lost. I of course did not jump to this conclusion, but subjected the fragment to all possible tests, including metrical analysis and carbon 14 dating, before deciding that these lines...