Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...THIRD day at Harvard, in the fall of 1975, I went upstairs in my dorm to get advice from a woman who seemed to have a strong grasp on her intended course of study. I was wondering whether I should take a certain chemistry course; she was a pre-med, and thus seemed a logical person to ask. We talked about my problem for a while, and then she told me she was trying to decide whether to take an introductory calculus course that would repeat a course she had taken in high school but had not understood very well...
Kampala itself slipped out of Amin's grasp with what one resident Western diplomat called "an eerie silence." Inching forward with extraordinary caution, the invading columns moved into the suburbs of the city from the southwest; they discovered a capital bereft of both defending troops and most of its civilian inhabitants. The Libyans, who two weeks ago had pushed the Tanzanians and Ugandan exiles out of Kampala's suburbs with a sharp counterattack, had already moved out of the city to avoid entrapment. One of the first landmarks to fall was the notorious Makindye military police headquarters, where...
WHEN THE STANDING COMMITTEE on the Core Curriculum releases the official 1979-80 listings of Core courses in a few weeks, undergraduates will see the program for the first time. Dean Rosovsky has kept discussion of the Core behind closed doors and beyond the grasp of students. Rosovsky capped his policy of stifling student involvement when he asked the Core committee two weeks ago not to divulge any information even about the 38 courses that had already been approved by the group. The few students who serve on the standing committee or its subcommittees were forbidden to solicit opinions about...
...concluding volume, I felt, if I could grasp what it means to say that the historical lacks significance, I could attribute to that stubbornly phenomenal human record the significance which the classic [western] poetry/history idealistic condenscension would strip from it. And so I wrote the history of how something became history, as modern men became modern in making their past past, while keeping it or restoring it us theirs...
...Hampshire, eleven months from now. Last week Connally, accompanied by Wife Nellie and a van of political reporters, made his first foray into the state since announcing his candidacy. In speeches and press conferences, he called for new decisive leadership to rescue the U.S. from the grasp of oil sheiks and end the dollar's decline. Said he: "We're going to have to reinstill pride in America for what we are, for what we've been. Somehow, we're going to have to save the world again...