Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paid bonus is the latest brain child of Washington New Dealers. Concocted from a combination of Keynes' plan of "How to Pay for the War" and extravagant demands of Veterans of Future Wars, it is a scheme simple enough for even the non-economist to grasp. Cambridge Professor John Maynard Keynes, now in the United States to speed Lend-Lease aid, has proposed lopping off the excess of total wages over total goods available for consumption by paying workers partly in bonds rather than cash. This would keep prices from rising in the wartime world when income soars while output...
...Spain. His two-volume The Soviets in World Affairs, still the standard work on the subject, made Fischer an authority on Russian foreign politics. It also brought him into close contact with Russian politicians. His dispatches were easy to read and suggested an unusual grasp of the forces that make history move. While other correspondents' dispatches were coldly objective or loaded with hostility to Russia, Fischer's reports were constantly favorable to Russia. Fischer became the favorite Russian author of wishful-thinking U.S. intellectuals...
...book is notable for his total grasp of World War II and the social, political, military and diplomatic forces involved in it; for his smooth organization of his varied special knowledge. There are excellent chapters on the military preparations for World War II or the reason for the lack of them; on the diplomatic preparations, on the crisis of French and British war doctrine, on the interrelation of strategy and politics. Less convincing is Werner's analysis of the Russo-Finnish War, which turns out in Werner's hands to have been much more of a victory...
...immunity gained after a few of his lectures, should fix that. Short, boyishly cut gray hair, a rapid and brusque manner, make him seem a tall little man. A conversation with Sorokin requires an effort to keep up with his wit, and when he gets serious, an effort to grasp what he is talking about. For him, the best art, literature, and music was produced before the nineteenth century. Enough of a cosmopolite to prefer Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart to Tchaikovsky and Rimsky Korsakov, smoke English instead of Russian cigarettes, keep cases of French wine in his cellar instead...
...this curious disorder, Dr. Cleckley has coined a fancy name: semantic dementia-meaning inability to grasp the ordinary meaning of life as lived by human beings. It is as though, behind the mask of sanity, the emotional mechanism had collapsed, leaving these semi-suicides incapable of love, joy, sorrow, aspiration, regret. When examined in hospitals, they are often alert, bright, cheerful, amiable, sometimes haughty and aloof; but they usually think very highly of themselves, are always wholly callous to the distress they cause others. To the knowing psychiatrist, their eloquent admissions of error and promises to reform are catchwords which...