Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evening before he left for Europe, Herter made his first major speech as Secretary of State, a TV report to the nation on the purposes of the Geneva conference. He came across on the TV screens as a man with a grasp of his job, a clear view of its problems, and confidence in his ability to handle them...
...Democratic Senate passed it in four hours. Limiting debate had been on the calendar for nearly 30 years-and a Democratic Senate acted in three days. And it was a Democratic Senate that gave the nation the first civil rights bill in 82 years." Left to the audience to grasp for itself: leadership in each case was Lyndon Baines Johnson...
...average day Columnist Riddle will field 40 such calls from readers, whose questions are as encyclopedic in scope as Riddle's grasp of the subject. He is rarely stumped. Some samples...
...Broken Man." Said the Daily Herald: "Sick men can't rule the world . . . It is the West's tragedy that the President is NOT fit for service. At 68, America's wartime hero is a broken man, incapable of the energy required to grasp important matters for any length of time...
...surprising power in forte passages; the clear, business-like beat of the conductor. Given these conditions, the last movement, with its big tuttis and its motor energy, came off best; delicate, involved sections fared less well. It was the performance of a good amateur orchestra which has a good grasp of technical problems and frequently produces fine sound, but which has difficulty in conveying the spirit of the music...