Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...William J. Porter, 58, a widely esteemed member of the Foreign Service, becomes Under Secretary for Political Affairs. He will act as Kissinger's chief contact and diplomatic adviser at State. While serving as chief negotiator at the Paris peace talks, Porter has impressed the President with his grasp of North Vietnamese tactics...
Speech is dispensed with in Act Without Words, in which Cronyn mimes the frustrations of a man lost in the desert who is variously tempted by water bottles that elude his grasp and ropes that foil his attempts to hang himself. The character is a kind of vaudeville Sisyphus, and one can thank Beckett for the small favor that the playlet lasts only ten minutes. Not I lasts 15. It is the seemingly final verbal spasm of a woman of 70 (Tandy) who recounts fragments of her life and concludes that even her suffering does not add up to much...
...clear to Guinier that Dunlop would work with him to get financial support for the proposed DuBois Institute. Yet, immediately after this meeting, Dunlop began his efforts to take the project out of Guinier's control. When he found he could not wrest the institute from the chairman's grasp. Dunlop made sure that the institute got no funding from foundations...
...grandmother, "the most decisive influence in my life." Mead describes her in words that apply equally well to herself: "She was unquestionably feminine, and wholly without feminist aggrievement. She had gone to college when this was a very unusual thing for a girl to do, she had a firm grasp on anything she paid attention to, she married and had a child, and she had a career...
...David S. Broder, chief political correspondent for the Washington Post, based his often prescient columns on a thorough grasp of Washington realities and extensive travels through the country. Broder pinpointed a paradox in the voters' mood: "We're not notably consistent in any respect. We want to keep the Russians and Chinese in their places, but we want to end the draft. We want the benefits of mass production techniques, but we want relief from the drudgery of assembly-line jobs...