Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wired Camp Valka. refuge for fugitives from the Iron Curtain countries. At the Luitpold, time was when Hitler offered Germans the hope of Lebensraum. Today the U.S. offers Camp Valka's people a new chance in life-in the U.S. But the chance is still discouragingly hard to grasp...
...loud; at a press conference, where he spoke of Haiti's need for capital (a Haitian loan is in the works at the Export-Import Bank). Throughout the whole show, Magloire's commanding figure commanded attention. Back home, Haitians were proud of their President's quick grasp of the stately choreography of a full-dress Washington reception. At week's end Magloire left Washington for New York and Nashville to receive kudos from Columbia, Fordham and Fisk Universities; afterwards he will go to Boston for a quick physical checkup at the Lahey Clinic before he starts...
...example, people sometimes think that they must read everything on a page word-by-word to extract the sense, but this is sometimes an unnecessary waste and may lead to no real grasp of what the eye has covered, Wilcox explains...
...only as they partake in at least some degrees of the goal of humane scholarship. But a college in which the studies traditionally called the humanities are weak runs the risk of being less liberal than it should; for our full humanity is best quickened and developed through imaginative grasp of the subtler experiences of individuals as revealed through arts and letters...
...experience is that . . . what people like and don't like bewilders small children . . . Whereas in the Christian home you're appealing from the central relationship of the child's life-his relationship with his parents-to a similar relationship, God the Father. The child can grasp the idea that God's family includes all people everywhere, and that therefore we must behave to them as to members of our own family. It does seem to me that this understanding can grow with his growing experience of life, and though . . . there may be some difficulties, I feel...