Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this immediately, and his reach into Hindu scripture has become famous: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." Even before the test blast, Danish Physicist Niels Bohr foresaw a fundamental change in the relationships among nation-states. Both Hitler and Churchill, on the other hand, failed to grasp the political consequences of the new energy. "After all," said the Prime Minister, "this new bomb is just going to be bigger than our present bombs. It involves no difference in the principles...
...Harvard Computer ClassicsProject (HCCP), Crane, along with graduatestudents and undergraduates, has written exams toallow students and professors to easily search forthe various contexts in which an author uses aparticular word. By calling up on computer everyexample of when an author used a certain word,scholars can have a better grasp of the subtlemeaning for each word...
This is the same man who, according to his former budget director, fails to grasp even the basic arithmetic of the federal budget. This is the same man whose former chief of staff proclaimed himself part of a "shovel brigade," perpetually cleaning up after the boss. This is the same man who nevertheless placed his trust in a janitorial incompetent, someone more adept at grave-digging than damage control...
...Flintie Ray Williams' calculation, "the basic thing every college basketball player needs to learn is that everyone can't end up in the N.B.A. It took me about a year and a half after I quit playing to fully grasp that. In another place, I think I might have been lost after basketball. Coach Tarkanian helps the players get to that point where they're real with themselves, and then the town generally offers them a living. It's not such a terrible deal." Stars parking cars may not be the jackpot, but they know when to fold...
...WEEKS went by, and we struggled to keep our personal possessions out of his meaty grasp, the Dinosaur gradually revealed to me the sordid intricacies of the hardcore lifestyle, as practiced by punkus Cantabrigianus...