Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said one of Bradford's aides. This could mean that Powers has already lost the strike that he began. But, perhaps encouraged by a pan-union demonstration of solidarity at the New York Times Building. Powers went right on acting like a man who feels victory in his grasp...
Outside the Whirl. Much of Mills's special authority derives from the sheer weight of his expertise. He is beyond dispute Congress' leading authority on taxation. His grasp of its intricacies often astonishes expert witnesses who appear before his committee...
...King in 1941. She was a dietitian at Grasmere's Moore General Hospital when her husband ran for Governor, quit her job to help organize women volunteers for the campaign, filled in for him on several speaking engagements. An avid reader and ardent gardener, she has an intelligent grasp of problems, but foresees no great change in her way of life now that she is the Governor's wife. New Hampshire has no governor's mansion, so official social life will be limited. Says she simply: "I will just be a good wife to the Governor...
...thing he knows and loves-engines. But when he begins to fix the Sand Pebble's decrepit coal-burning monstrosity-and, worse, agonizingly tries to teach a Chinese coolie how steam drives the pistons-he puts the whole ship in an uproar. The Chinese are not supposed to grasp theory. Engine work is coolie labor. The intricate fabric of protective illusion cannot bear the slightest intrusion of reality...
...Hungarian Freedom Fighter in 1956 anonymously represented many. Often the choice of a Man of the Year became an accolade, but not always, and in the years when the likes of Joe Stalin or Hitler was chosen, there were many angry readers who did not grasp our definition: a man or woman who dominated the news that year and left an indelible mark - for good or ill - on history. Khrushchev was allowed to look triumphant the year of the Sputnik (1957), but Hitler in the year of Munich (1938) already had so much blood on his hands that...