Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Robert Frost Wednesday night told an audience of over 200 servicemen and guests at the fourth of his Fogg Poetry, Readings that the greatest goal of poets today is "to grasp the United States...
...General Chernyakhovsky, who had paused on the border for a whole fortnight, slashed into the Suwalki triangle, which Germany annexed in 1939. Bagramian's drive toward Riga while Chernyakhovsky waited had probably cost the latter his chance to be first to the sea. Now Chernyakhovsky held in his grasp a greater honor: that of seeing his divisions the first to tread the earth of Germany...
...Siam was a character out of Gilbert & Sullivan - except that when he tortured people, they died. When Anna arrived at Bangkok she met the full force of cold, Oriental impoliteness. She was insulted, neglected, frightened, sneered at, as soon as she was safely in the King's grasp...
...only in winning the war, but in being ready for the peace. If this transition is to be handled without unnecessary unemployment, without further inflation and chaotic confusion, the government must be ready for the swiftest action. . . . Further delays will turn the adventure in prosperity that lies within our grasp into an adventure in adversity...
...think we owe our editors some sort of tribute for the job they did. I reread their stories Friday- and even at that time, 65 hours after their last correction was made, every sentence in their stories still "stood up"-and they gave me as good a grasp of what was happening as all the thousands of other words I read that day written on the basis of much later news...