Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Southern leader must grasp the significance of the polls and conversations that show the average man opposed to integration, but nevertheless certain that it is coming. It is time to impress upon the people of the South both the significance, and more important, the inherent dangers of this split...
...defective, party education. On his untrammeled peasant mind Marxist-Leninist theory had the power of revelation. He took the Stalinist line and stuck to it. T hus he became one of the realists of Communism, an undeviating supporter of power-in-being. With his bull-like energy, ready grasp of slogans, he was soon shouldering his way through the party ranks...
...plan that placed emphasis first on the European theater, then on the Pacific. He was air-operations officer for the Twelfth Air Force under Jimmy Doolittle in the North African campaign. Of his service in North Africa, General Dwight Eisenhower later wrote: "[He] so impressed me with his alertness, grasp of problems, and personality that I never thereafter lost sight of him." In 1944 he became Arnold's chief of staff in the Twentieth Air Force, helped direct the unprecedented, long range B-29 raids, including the first A-bomb drops on Japan...
...faithful daughter Antigone, Nancy Dersofi is most convincing, and extremely graceful to watch. Erich Segal is exemplary as the wily Creon. Royall Tyler appropriately spits out his lines in portraying the ardent but hypocritical Polyneices. David Shillman's Theseus suffers only from unclearly articulated diction; otherwise he manages to grasp the psychological changes that Theseus undergoes during the course of the play. Amy Mims is adequate, if a bit stiff, as Antigone's sister Ismene...
...receiving end of the battery, Dave Fairburn has a good grasp on the position. Though a slow runner, he has shown slugging power. With alert playing in the first game Fairburn started a double play pick-off. Larry McCully, who played the second game behind the plate, is pressing Fairburn. Sylvester Sterioff is the third catcher...