Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prospect for tl ; U.S. But if Hanoi continues on its present course, the President is determined to increase U.S. military pressure as needed. The Communists, as the President observed recently, "have less to write home to mother about than I do." Just how long it will take them to grasp this homely idea is, of course, what all the talking is about...
With victory in their grasp, the Northerners' first idea was to secede and form their own independent state. After a flurry of long-distance telephone conferences, however, and heavy diplomatic pressure from the West, they were persuaded that the backward, semiarid North would be hard put to go it alone without the natural resources of the South and the skills of the Southerners. Agreeing to one more try at nationhood, they named a 31-year-old lieutenant colonel, Yakubu Gowon, as Nigeria's new supreme commander...
...controversy will rage until educators produce reliable studies of the long-range effects of parental preschool teaching. No one knows whether a grasp of algebra at five makes a boy a sharper mathematician at 25. Meanwhile, all the experts urge caution-and even Doman and the Engelmanns concede that impatient parents, who tense up when Timmy says "saw" as he looks at the word was, ought to forget the whole thing...
Twice at the height of a fevered hunt for the killer, Speck was in the grasp of Chicago police. Twice in that time the cops walked away without a glimmering that the troubled young man on their hands was the nation's most wanted suspect. And though on one occasion he even told a policeman that his name was Richard Speck, in the end it was not a law officer but a young, unarmed doctor who recognized Speck and had him arrested...
...created a new idiom: space-speak. Many a scientist finds the growing, and sometimes incomprehensible jargon essential to the simplest conversation about new devices and techniques. But many a layman has become convinced that it is only one more irritating and unnecessary obstacle looming between him and a better grasp of scientific accomplishment. In a detailed analysis of space-speak for the magazine Science, University of Michigan Psychologist David McNeill suggests that there is something to be said for both points of view...