Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Commons' inveterate gadfly, Laborite Emanuel Shinwell, brought into open debate what was in many British minds. In a powerful, reasoned and disturbing speech he shocked the House by declaring: "Unless we can with speed and with the utmost efficiency reorganize our resources . . . victory may be beyond our grasp." Laborite Shinwell went on to denounce the Government's propagandist optimism ("The people of this country have no desire to be fobbed off with an exaggerated optimism which has no foundation in fact'') and the Government's inconsistent announcements on industrial production ("The Government should perform like...
Smooth numbers show no spurts of popularity with numbers as old as "Stardust" consistently being purchased today. Hot jazz tends to be less definite with tunes changing position almost every day as a fad as boogey-woogey or songs like "He's My Uncle" grasp undergraduate imaginations...
...told that no one has yet proved it impossible to live in a totalitarian world. God forbid that we should wait until it is proved! The signers fail dismally to grasp the full significance of the Nazi thrust to us. For the record shows that Hitler will tolerate no obstacle to the expansion of the Nazi World Revolution. And we already know what Hitler thinks of democracies...
...drastically this week, or on the other hand it may stick to its tradition of some 23 years' standing. But whichever way it moves, the Legion well do its country a service by thinking its problems through to the end and stating its position clearly enough for all to grasp. Its influence is great, but no greater than its responsibility. Let the thousands of delegates shake staid old Boston like a toy rattle, led them tic up traffic in knots the Boy Scouts never heard of, but still the eyes of the nation will watch intently for the outcome...
Says realistic Historian Burckhardt: "Like all the great creative forces in history, Richelieu was a great destroyer. He tore down as much as he built up, yet it was not his fault, but that of his successors, that they did not grasp the profound lesson of his work, the lesson that no wall must be removed unless another and better one is erected...