Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...explain foreign policy to the Commonwealth." Officials used to his rather dour predecessor, Selwyn Lloyd, were charmed by Home's wit and informality (Home rides up front in official cars, putting the Scotland Yard man in the back). His subordinates were also surprised at his grasp of the issues...
...parts of the country who were already fairly sure of admission, and the results will be studied in depth. Already, some alumni are protesting the idea of a scientifically-based interview, but Glimp insists, "This isn't strictly scientific; it's just a help to give us a firmer grasp. We're not going to turn interviewing over to a machine...
...some of the basic sources of study in his favorite field. Professor Matthew A. Fitzsimons of Notre Dame says flatly that Toynbee's treatment of the U.S. "is in accurate and distorted, insufficient and indefinite." Yet most of these experts pay homage to his scope, his overall grasp, the boldness of his vision. Relatively, time has been on Toynbee's side. In 1935, reviewing the first three volumes of the Study, the Journal of Modern History sniped: "A Gargantuan feast, shall we say? Or is it hash and not chopped up fine enough at that...
...that point the picturesque personage had built hardly anything at all. But Le Corbusier's reach was always to exceed his grasp. He was thinking of architecture not only in terms of this or that building, but of everything within the building- 'every detail of household furnishing, the street as well as the house and the wider world beyond." With an artist's bland disregard for the inertia of others, Le Corbusier drew up a master plan for a "Contemporary City of Three Million Inhabitants...
...army's loyalty and bring his nation to the recognition that a French Algeria was a lost dream. With the F.L.N. leaders ready to talk peace either in France or Switzerland next month, an end to the long, bloody ordeal of Algeria seemed at long last within his grasp...