Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seems to degenerate at times to farce, are there not always buffoons ready to disport themselves at the feet of the great? Guinness' performance is the thing to be seen, to be admired, but to be copied only by one who, as St. James cautions, can maintain his cool grasp when rough weather threatens the passage across the strait...
...childhood friend has given birth to his son, he marries her for her money though they abhor each other. When she dies, he squanders the fortune she has left him. Some land remains to his son, however, and Gradėre tries to salvage it from the predatory grasp of Symphorien Desbats, the asthmatic husband of Gradėre's wife's cousin. A business marriage is arranged between Gradėre's brutish son and Symphorien's crafty daughter, but after title to the property passes to Symphorien, his daughter refuses the match...
...currents of his age) it is often the simple and obvious which is the profound; but of course the naivete is deceptive, and the real meaning of the phrase is neither simple nor obvious. The artist, however, must in no case insist upon this "real meaning"; though he has grasped it fully, his performance must have the fluency and calculated nonchalance which are the signs of restraint and cultivation. If he exceeds these bounds in any but the subtlest manner he questions the ability of a presumably equally cultivated audience to grasp the clusive substance beneath the "obvious" phrase...
Notre Dame tightened its grasp on the number one spot in the weekly Associated Press football poll with its victory over Georgia Tech, snapping Tech's unbeaten string at 31 games...
...power in position to contain the enemy. Unlike Dean Acheson, he has also sought every opportunity to use that power actively against the Communists. Even in matters where Dulles and Acheson were in total agreement as to objectives, there was a difference between the two: Acheson acquired a brilliant grasp of the details involved; Dulles got things done...