Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opportunity no American diplomat has enjoyed. Yet When Snow returned to the United States, Dean Rusk (who was then about to assume his position of Secretary of State) only managed to find about ten minutes to talk with Snow. His questions reportedly did not reveal a complete grasp of conditions inside China. "Does China have much iron?" Rusk is said to have asked. Why yes, the largest vein in the world," Snow gratefully replied...
...considering the freeway in relation to the landscape, the questions are: "Does it flow along the river smoothly, hug the slope naturally, climb the hill in a convincing way? Does it grasp the mountain firmly, jump the valley decisively? Or does it, on the contrary, climb a ridge needlessly, descend into a valley thoughtlessly, violate a lake brutally, cut up the landscape violently? Or is it simply trite...
...Schools, in the worst sense, grasp only the procedure of a composer, not his personality...
...Doren wants his students not only to read carefully but to think about the four masterpieces--The Odyssey, portions of the Old Testament, The Castle, Don Quixote--assigned in the course. He is a teacher. And like the best of teachers he knows that no student will fully grasp an idea or story until he has made it his own through active, even enthusiastic concern...
...fashioned Trollopean sense of the importance of what people wear, the houses they occupy, the jobs and property they get and lose, and the inherent drama of the tables of consanguinity. To this concern she adds a truly female tongue for the arts of conversation and a grasp of the idiom of appearances...