Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General MacArthur replied, evidently much struck by the Congressman's grasp of everything...
...more clearly does Vice Premier Mihai Antonescu (no kin) grasp the coming catastrophe. Younger, and unhampered by erratic thoughts, Mihai Antonescu has a simple plan: if the Anglo-Saxons remain deaf to every whispered invitation to come into Rumania-then quick! To the airport! A plane is waiting to take the supple second in command to Turkey and internment...
...Senate lost its mightiest atom last week. Washington's little (5 ft. 6 in., 135 lb.) Homer Truett Bone, 61, got a Presidential appointment as Federal Circuit Judge (seven Western states, Alaska, Hawaii, China). Two-Term Senator Bone had certain renomination and election within his grasp, could he but campaign for it. But a fall in his Tacoma home in 1939 left him crippled; repeated operations had further impaired his health. For a year his right leg has been massaged daily by the Senate doctor. (Said Senator Bone dryly : "After all these years of having my leg pulled...
...first & foremost concern was Britain's place in a power-political continent and world. But he did not allay all of the House of Commons' doubt and distrust. Cried a caustic, Conservative M.P. : The Prime Minister is "a Charlie McCarthy for Stalin. . . ." Such complainants failed to grasp the salient fact of Churchill's speech: to the. best of his vast abilities, Tory Churchill was fighting defensively for Britain. At the end of a restive, two-day debate, Anthony Eden completed the maneuvers which his chief had begun. Like Churchill, the Foreign Secretary carefully retraced the give-&-take...
...know that during the present crisis some in Congress have failed to grasp the requirement of our times, have clung to old formulas in a world of basic change; that some Republican Party leaders were slow, very slow, to appreciate the fundamental issues involved in the present armed conflict. I know that there have long been in the Republican Party forces which really believe that a political party exists solely for the advancement of private, selfish, material interests, and who would . . . turn back the clock of social progress; that negative and subversive elements flock to the party out of power...