Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...floor. Bricks were placed under my feet and piled up one by one. As each brick stretched my taut leg muscles farther, the agony became unbearable. I fainted seven times within 40 minutes. . . . They gave me what they called the 'electric punishment.' I was forced to grasp two electrally charged tubes and the voltage was gradually stepped up. Every inch ofm y body trembled like jelly. I felt as though I were going to burst." But Liu did not talk; months later the Japanese released him, still under suspicion, let him join the Puppet Government at Nanking. Traveling...
...been called a power miser. He likes to gather all the power into his grasp, but then refuses to use it." He will "go to any length to avoid strikes. ... He has always preferred consultation to coercion." He has "unending patience in negotiations." Yet "he was one of the first among the leaders to recognize the threat of Fascism." Ernest Bevin does not like radical intellectuals. Neither, Author Strauss makes it clear, do radical intellectuals like Bevin. The fundamental difference between their doctrinaire attitude and that of "this fearsome-looking man, with the brusque voice and genius for brutal direct...
...Labor Ministers have been utterly unable to make Churchill grasp, on the economic side, the revolutionary character of the changes produced by the war. . . . He has an emotional interest merely in its domestic impact. . . . The pathos of the bombed areas makes him demand instant action. But the inadequacies of the policies of his Government in education, for instance, or evacuation, do not arrest his interest, and nothing proportionate to their importance is attempted. . . . He does not even begin to understand the gravity of his colleagues' failure to grapple with the problems of production. . . . Mr. Churchill remains a very great...
...Abroad the Germans were threatening U.S. and British command of the Atlantic: Dakar was already almost in Nazi grasp; one of Britain's proudest ships had gone down before a new German dreadnought off Greenland and the proudest ship of the German Navy had been sunk by the British off Brest (see p. 21); Germany's top admiral and the Japanese were talking of war if the U.S. gave further naval help to Britain (see p. 27). Unless the U.S. once again took a firm stand for freedom of the seas (see p. 14), the U.S. might...
...Azores belong to Portugal, which means that they will be within Hitler's grasp whenever he wants to reach. That fact can be gravely important...