Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Probably the chief fault of the first part is that it fails to grasp the tremendous depths of evil in Brutus Jones. While O'Neill draws him as a devil incarnate, who stops at nothing to achieve his end, the English version, played by Paul Robeson, is of an aggressive man, who committed his sins unavoidably...
Albert Einstein, whose relativity theory is commonly supposed to be beyond the grasp of plain citizens, wrote a layman's "explanation" in 1916. Excerpt...
...TIME with its splendid covering of 'the most recent Allied airborne operation and the British and American forces which executed it. You have once more placed before the British and American public the achievements of our airborne troops, whose gallantry and fighting hearts have no superiors. In grasp of subject, in recognition of sound airborne principles, and in vividness of description, I think you have set new standards...
...Grasp butt lightly but firmly between thumb and third finger, stand back, aim, and let fire. The demonstration brought excellent results: two ladder cars, three engines, one rescue truck, twenty Cambridge firemen, and 300 feet of good Cambridge hose...
...rank-&-file Salvadorans could not grasp the distinction. By mail to the U.S. Embassy came pictures of Roosevelt which had been used as toilet paper. Also by mail came neatly wrapped parcels of dung...