Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...friend of the President remarked; "Jack Kennedy was extremely smart. He could grasp large things and detail very quickly. But he was not an intellectual. He had respect for intellectuals. The most important point, though, is that he knew how to use them well...
...that would have gone down in history as the nation's greatest jewel robbery. For the hopeless fact was that the robber who was designated as the "wheel man"-the "cop" assigned to drive off with the boodle-the excruciatingly exasperated hood with a huge fortune in his grasp-the sad simpleton upon whom everything depended-couldn't drive a 1951 Ford...
Home showed soon enough who was running the Foreign Office. He impressed its clannish professionals with his industry and quick grasp of issues, delighted many others with his laconic wit. When an aide sent him a bale of documents with the note, "The Secretary of State will be interested in reading this," Home sent back the bundle with the reply: "A kind thought, but entirely erroneous. Please abstract." From the outset he adopted a show-me attitude to the Russians that was notably tougher than Macmillan's conciliatory approach. When Soviet fighters threatened Allied traffic in the Berlin...
...some miscreant in light blue took aim at the football and punched it loose from Grana's grasp. It bounded free in the end zone and another child of darkness scooped it up. Only Columbia's recklessness and center Brad Stephens' alertness saved Harvard from total humiliation in the last minute of play...
What will remain, for a while, is the memory of a crusty, highhanded octogenarian who clung pathetically to power well beyond the moment when he should have relinquished it. Ultimately, however, Konrad Adenauer can only be remembered as the German whose idealism and hardheaded grasp of reality in one decade transformed the nature and condition of 20th century Germany. Winston Churchill accurately called him "the greatest German statesman since Bismarck," but even Bismarck's Germany did not rise from the rubble and bitterness of defeat to the position of respect and responsibility that West Germany enjoys today...