Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could not escape a certain feeling of admiration for the old man's courage in facing the end of his life work . . . nor could one escape a feeling of being stupefied at this utter refusal and inability to grasp the first principles of what is happening in the modern world and what the peoples of Europe want and require...
...Eaters. The 100,000,000-year-old cockroach, which outlived the dinosaur and many other prehuman contemporaries, has evolved into a superbug of almost incredible staying power. Its hard, slippery body is hard to grasp; its flat torso permits it to squeeze into the smallest cracks; its nimble legs give it unparalleled speed and shiftiness; its skin is so sensitive to light that even when blinded it infallibly finds a dark place to hide in. It can get along on so little oxygen that it lives for hours after its breathing tubes have been sealed; it is the only known...
...executives in the University's School of Business, he had given four two-hour examinations in the humanities and the social, physical and biological sciences. Fourteen of the examinees, mostly middle-aged men, had never been to college. Five of the non-college men showed a respectable grasp of all four fields, five others passed in three, and the remaining four proved themselves well-grounded in at least...
What few seemed to grasp was that the planning and changeover to a peace economy would be infinitely tougher, and politically more explosive, than the 1940 American conversion to war. Said Pundit Walter Lippmann: "We shall have to face fully the realities . . . which are now as little understood as were the danger and imminence of war in the winter of 1940. How little that was understood may be judged from the fact that two months before the fall of France, the House cut the number of replacement airplanes of the Army to 57, and the President did not publicly object...
Brest. Saint-Nazaire, Lorient were the fattest of the prizes now within his grasp. Brest (pop. 74,000) and Saint-Nazaire (42,000) were deep-water ports the Americans sorely needed. They had been there before-in 1917 and 1918. From Saint-Nazaire's riverside wharves a vast flow of heavy material had been run to the front over a U.S.-built railroad 27 years ago. At Brest many a U.S. division had poured ashore. At least two of those divisions-the 4th and the 79th-were close to Brest again this week...