Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rose to the occasion, tying Dennis Hasset of the Jaspers at 12 ft., 6 in. Mahaney took third at 12 feet, to give the Crimson an event which Manhattan considered private property. Finally, Beckwith's 23-foot broad jump (which led another Crimson sweep), and Ed Meehan's authoritative grasp of the two-mile, helped pound nails into the Jasper coffin...
...Wunderkind. The son of a successful Rhineland lawyer, Abs studied law at Bonn University, but quit to learn banking. After apprenticeships in Paris, Amsterdam, London and New York, he joined a private banking house in Berlin in 1929 and quickly attracted attention by his grasp of international finance. His appointment in 1937 as head of the Deutsche Bank's foreign department established him at 36 as the Wunderkind of German banking. Though he is a devout Catholic and did not join the Nazi Party, Abs, as a top banker, was inevitably involved in the Nazis' financial wheeling...
...what these laws are. Here lies Wolfson's most irritating weakness, for he leaves his audience wondering about an enormous number of embarrassing technical matters. Why, after all, should lost souls produce a kind of "spiritual fallout"? Why should Nathan's metaphysics be so simple-minded that He cannot grasp the mechanics of good and evil on His earth? A lack of precision, a lack simply of detail, reduces much of Dr. Plantagenet to situation comedy in a wild setting. Its fascination is undeniable, but it derives far more from one's desire to learn more about a weirdly built...
...Grasp receiver firmly in left hand and with right dial number...
...Replace receiver on carriage. Grasp telephone firmly in both hands. Pull out of wall. Curse...