Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Premier Queuille, trying to take a gingerly grasp on the nettle, got stung. He ordered troops, police, and republican security guards to seize mines threatened with damage; but, fearing civil war, he ordered them not to shoot. The government forces were outnumbered by strike mobs and in most places were beaten back with a heavy toll of injuries on both sides. Near St. Etienne, strikers tried to oust government forces from a mine already seized (see cut). At Firminy, where panicky security guards started shooting, against the government's orders, 40 strikers were wounded, two killed...
...enough mines had been flooded to make it necessary for France to import 1,000,000 tons of extra U.S. coal this winter, thus using up EGA credits earmarked for fats, cereals, cotton. The French press screamed for action, and the Queuille government finally decided to grasp the nettle firmly. Forty thousand troops and police reserves were mobilized and ordered to shoot if they met resistance. They seized twelve big mines, and the Commies, intimidated at last, put up almost no fight...
...Daniele, whose middle-class parents had been killed in the raid. Forced to assume adult responsibilities and overwhelmed by more than adult miseries, these four children drift and suffer, snatching moments of happiness, the full meaning of which they are too young-or perhaps already too old-to grasp...
Temple's power sprang from the fact that he saw every part of life, and every problem put to him, as part of an integrated universe which he could grasp as a personally integrated man, dedicated daily to God. His writing and preaching were designed to make religion relevant to everything-politics, economics, art and science...
...might be noted that this coming week will be as good a time as any to have a thorough grasp on the basic elements of the game. Army carries the two-platoon system to its logical extremity, where the defensive unit is rumored to be ignorant of offensive assignments, and vice-versa. But what each player does know he puts into effect with depressing finality. In other words Valpey operates on the principle of kill or be killed...