Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were puzzled by their fate. Beyond the unhappy realization of having been on the losing side of a war, they could not quite grasp the meaning of the court's quiet, determined fairness, or of the hard working prosecution's meticulous attention to detail. The Nazis had never done things that...
...Shakespeare and the Bible. "Part and parcel of a lawyer's expression of his ideas and arguments. . . . Judicial opinions frequently contain allusions . . . which a lawyer ought to grasp readily, like 'Naboth's vineyard' and 'the pound of flesh...
What U.S. missionaries know about the Far East, Chaplain Stroup complains, is not being made use of by the U.S.: "The truth is that [the] silk-hatted 'realists' have made a mess of things. . . . Our State Department 'experts' on Far Eastern Affairs have no better grasp of the problems of the Orient than have many of our outstanding missionaries. ... It was the missionary . . . who for years urged aid to the desperately struggling Chinese. . . ." What's more, "the loss of many American lives and long months of battle might have been avoided if the 'wisdom...
...evidence of "incoherent judgment," Barzun says, "Even in describing the proposed curriculum, the report seems to be attending to too many things for a clear grasp of its own meaning...
...generally true, as Joseph Kramer, Irma Grese and their lesser co-defendants said, that they had obeyed orders ("Anyone in the SS is as guilty as anyone else"). A corollary truth, hard for the occupiers to grasp, was that the basic crime-Naziism-was not an individual but a national crime. Since this was so, the German people could never really be convinced that the national crimes of Naziism were crimes...