Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grasp of U.S. public affairs was about what might have been expected from a nice old man who loved conversation of all kinds but thought that all elections were won on issues. He had read the Federalist Papers, admired Tom Paine and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and thought Henry Wallace a fine fellow...
...Protestantism growing stronger in its interior life-in spiritual depth, in an intelligent grasp of its faith, in the bonds which make for its solidarity? . . . Is Protestantism advancing in relation to the other forces which are competing for ascendancy in American culture? . . ." No, says Morrison; it is being outdistanced and overshadowed by its two competitors, Catholicism and secularism-and the greater of these is secularism...
...strange things that the Easter Island idols have looked out upon through the ages, the strangest was preparing last week. A world, with the power of universal suicide at last within its grasp, was about to make its first scientific test of that power. During the earliest favorable weather after July 1, two atom bombs would be exploded at Bikini Island. The first bomb (and the fourth ever to be detonated anywhere) would be dropped on 75 obsolete warcraft anchored in the Bikini lagoon. About three weeks later, a second atom bomb would be exploded under the surface...
...look behind the headlines into the actual-work of the Palestine Committee reveals a project which for its scope and precision, its humanity and yet its grasp of political facts, its economic common sense, its religious idealism is deserving of the utmost praise. The Committee looked at the plight of European Jews when it asked immediate admission of 100,000 to Palestine, but it recognized, too, the religious significance of the Holy Land to many peoples; it examined the economic importance and limitations of Palestine, but it also remembered the words of the original mandate and the faith placed...
Stalin might, as Trotsky wrote at the end of his preface, completely lack "the qualities of the historic initiator, thinker, writer or orator." Nevertheless, he knew how to make history, knew how to grasp and manage the forces, if not the ideas, of whose conflict history is the expression. No doubt it was true that Stalin's "first qualification was a contemptuous attitude toward ideas." No doubt "the idea...