Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Destalinization. "The essential question is this," said Dulles. "Are the Soviet rulers now attacking the basic causes of domestic discontent and foreign distrust, or is their purpose merely to allay this discontent and distrust?" The "downgrading of Stalin" and the policy of smiles have not relaxed the Soviet grasp on the satellites, or checked Soviet attempts to subvert free countries and regions, e.g., the Middle East...
...leisure-class social comedy, in which sheer ennui acts as a stimulant and the yawn is father to the kiss. Where Chekhov's people bestir themselves too little or too late, Turgenev's seem overready; just because the landscape is flat or the drawing room tedious, they grasp at situations and embroider them, they self-centeredly turn dramatist themselves. But they are often worldly enough to be on to what they are doing...
...create such an agreement are operating. The attention of the political parties has remained focused, in a manner I have already described, upon diminishing areas of disagreement within the broad political consensus that emerged in response to the domestic crisis of the 1930's. Because of this failure to grasp the significance of the newer and infinitely more momentous challenge, the power and influence of America and its Atlantic allies is now in jeopardy...
...asserted that the attention of the political parties has remained focused upon diminishing areas of disagreement within the broad political consensus that emerged in response to the domestic economic crisis of the 1930's." Thus they have failed to grasp the "newer and infinitely more momentous challenge," he charged...
...Haridon was delighted. In his first week he set a fisherman's broken leg, sewed up another's gashed hand, made the rounds of 50 "economically feeble'' oldsters entitled by French law to free medical care. "It was a job you could grasp with your two hands." L'Haridon explained later, "Here was real work for a dedicated...