Word: grasps
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With a history professor's sense of occasion, a futurist's grasp of possibilities and a politician's dexterity with symbols, Gingrich brought two gavels with him that day. The first -- a link to the past and a token of how long the G.O.P. had waited to regain power -- had belonged to Joseph Martin of Massachusetts, the last Republican Speaker, who relinquished it to the Democrats 40 years ago. The other, a jumbo mallet suggestive of Gingrich's power and willingness to use it, was donated by a fan. On opening day he favored...
...opportunities to reshape the church enjoyed by these two men were thus conditioned by quite different time spans. Nonetheless, their main achievements -- John's in introducing the Catholic reformation and John Paul's in terminating it -- are similarly weighty. It is also vital to grasp that despite their huge differences in character and temperament, the two men have much in common...
These days Heidi Fleiss greets her paying customers with a chirpy "Hi, can I help you?" Typically the first response is a double take as customers grasp that it's really her -- the notorious Hollywood Madam -- there among the boxer shorts and athletic gear at the Heidi Wear shop in Pasadena, California. The second response is to ask Fleiss to autograph their purchases, then to cluck sympathetically about her recent conviction on three counts of pandering and denounce her mandatory sentence of three years as a waste of taxpayer money. Fleiss has heard it all. But last week...
Lost amid the recriminations was a firm grasp of how the order of battle in Bosnia really stands. Have the Serbs won, as Defense Secretary William Perry pronounced on television early last week? He wrote off the Bosnian government's hopes of regaining turf. Yet even if the town of Bihac should fall, and assuming continued supplies of food, fuel and medicine from outside, the defenders of Bosnian sovereignty are actually better prepared than ever to fight for their homeland against the viciousness of tribal aggrandizement...
...from Wilber Marshall, a freight train of a linebacker. It caused the sixth concussion of Aikman's five-year career, and his second in 10 months. Aikman now says he is symptom free and ready to play, an attitude that worries his agent, Leigh * Steinberg. "Players have a better grasp of the contents of a can of diet soda than they do of the effects of their brain rattling against their skull," Steinberg says. "They accept way too much risk...