Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tables of statistics in Washington, crowded with numbers so immense that no one could really grasp them, one figure was simple enough to be seen, smelled and tasted: each day the U.S. was spending $15 million more than it was taking...
...because "there can be no such things as 'essential' or 'nonessential' articles of faith." In Rome, // Quotidiano, which often reflects Vatican views, agreed: "The strength of the Church is in fidelity to her doctrine . . . For her there cannot be practice without doctrine. Until non-Catholics grasp this ... no union is possible...
This hardly made sense, since Herbert Lehman, who beat Dulles, was no isolationist but a down-the-line supporter of the Administration's foreign policy. What did hurt the cause of internationalism was the defeat of a man who had a firmer, more realistic grasp of the workings of foreign policy than Lehman...
Woodruff engineered the second Bellboy score by passing to Jim Noonan who spun out of the Commuter safety man's grasp to score standing up. Dudley tried to get back into the game in the second half with Dave Gilbert's running and Bob Whoriskey's passing, but Lowell's Irv Karassik stifled the Commuter threat by intercepting a pass on the Bellboy...
...film gets across the hard-to-grasp concept that being a negro is, like everything else, a relative thing. It does not insist that all negroes are bright, pleasant people. It shows along with the neat, smart negroes, the ugly, stupid negroes, demanding of the audience only a degree of intellectual honesty in separating the two kinds, just as it would separate acceptable whites from unacceptable...