Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remarked, 'is a good imitation.' We then proceeded to the beach for our morning swim, assuming with everyone else in the hotel that it was just another practice maneuver by the Navy....Only when the radio began telling the people what had happened could one grasp the incredible fact...
...networks were in action-and in a turmoil. The news was beyond the grasp of some listeners. WOR, cutting into its football broadcast for a half minute, a minute at a time, got furious telephone calls from people too excited about the game to become excited about anything else. In Denver, when a religious hour was canceled, one man called station KFEL to ask if it considered the war news more important than the gospel. Nowhere did the straight radio reports of terrific bombing at Honolulu-of Jap pilots diving over the beautiful mountains to fire U.S. ships and kill...
...even drinking water. For the past three years Brooks House has come to its rescue by paying part of the yearly deficit. But after loaning $1400 Brooks House has reached the limit of its financial sympathy. Only an outright rental reduction can keep its protege from the coroner's grasp. It is paradoxical that college students should have to fight their University to maintain their living quarters. Students should be able to expect full cooperation from College authorities in finding housing accommodations. A modern university owes its domestic and foreign students alike certain minimum lodging facilities...
Subhas Chandra Bose, top left-winger in Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's All-India National Congress, twice Party President and persistent threat to Mahatma Gandhi's leadership, has been sentenced eleven times to British jails. Last week he was beyond British grasp. India's Council of State announced officially that he "has gone over to the enemy" and signed an Axis pact inviting India's invasion. Guessed the Council: He is probably already in Berlin or Rome...
...declare that a state of war exists. There was no sign that General Wood expected him to. No isolationist could believe that "every schoolchild knows what our foreign policy is." But at last it seemed that President Roosevelt was beginning to state it in terms that even schoolchildren could grasp...