Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...relations with Capitol Hill, Richardson has achieved marked improvements, impressing congressional committees with his grasp of detail, which was demonstrated once again last week as the Senate Finance Committee began hearings on the revised welfare re-form bill supported by the Administration. Says New York's Senator Jacob Javits: "Sure, there is always a touch of arrogance. But it is not empty. He's got something to back it up that commands respect." Richardson revamped the congressional liaison staff and spends more time than Finch did in coddling Congressmen. When differences crop up, they tend now to exonerate...
Taken merely as a contrived symbol, the star would be only a bit of mys- tical sleight of hand, but Rosenzweig clearly meant it to be a demonstration of both ontological truth and an ethnic imperative. The Jews, he says, have been elected to grasp intuitively this intimate structure of reality. By their blood inheritance of God's ancient Covenant with Abraham, the Jews have the truth in as rich abundance as man is allowed-if they want it. For Judaism is at the very heart of the star, its burning center. Christianity forms the "rays" of the star...
...that the desire of married women to take jobs increases rather than decreases as they and their husbands turn the corner from being fairly poor to being fairly well off. These women join the labor force to extend their families' economic reach beyond the main breadwinner's grasp, and often with his encouragement. For families of almost any income level, a second paycheck can mean an end to worry and a new ability to take faraway vacations or send the children to camp and college...
PURLIE (562). Anyone who has ever been to an evangelistic revival meeting will instantly grasp the tempo, rhetoric and fervor of this show. When these people "rock church," they really rock church. Cleavon Little is a kinetic preacherman, and 22-year-old Patti Jo is as much of a superfind as her predecessor, Melba Moore, and equally beguiling...
...long-held feeling that Congress had been misled by the Executive Branch. "These documents," fumed Idaho Democrat Frank Church, "secure Johnson's position as a liar." Declared Maryland Republican Charles Mathias: "I am outraged?but I'm worn down with outrage." Yet the Congress made no immediate move to grasp control of the war from the Nixon Administration...