Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy in its desperate attempt to make its points. At Annapolis he absorbed the great U.S. tradition of sea power-the tradition that led U.S. Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan to explain to the British how they won and held their empire, the tradition which explains Winston Churchill's grasp of strategic problems...
...Difficult Years offers a masterly Chaplinesque performance by Actor Spadaro, as the pathetic, sometimes ludicrous hero. And Director Zampa tells his quiet, straightforward story with compassion, humor, biting irony and a firm grasp of character. It is a story full of meaning for a world still under totalitarian clouds...
...presidency seemed to be in his grasp. The C.I.O. was noisily for him; Franklin Roosevelt said he wanted him as running mate again. But, for political expediency, Roosevelt sacrificed him. Humiliated, Henry Wallace hung around though he had been cast off: he licked his wounded spirit in the job of Secretary of Commerce. In 1945, he saw Harry Truman step into the White House job which he might have...
...that this is an especially terrible war. It is so for reasons which every American must understand if we are to grasp the extent, the nature and the immense complexities of our problem in Asia. Much of this war is alien to the American tradition and shocking to the American mind. For our men in Korea are waging this war as they are forced to wage it and as they will be forced to wage any war against the Communists anywhere in Asia...
...soldiers will continue to be forced to war in this fashion-until our political and military leaders acquire and apply an understanding of war in Asia that they have not as yet displayed in Korea. Above all, our leaders must grasp one quite simple fact: war against the Communists of Asia cannot be won-not really won-by military means alone...