Word: grasps
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Kennedy says he doesn't see why minorities are upset by the organization, but he seems not to grasp that even a little perceived insensitivity can go a long way. "The last time a joke was printed that had even a remote reference to Blacks was in spring of 1990," he asserts...
...those months, Vance and Owen simply didn't grasp the fact that Bosnia was a case of aggression that could only be stopped by force, or a credible threat of force...
...translator of tremendous skill...He has an impeccable grasp of English and Japanese...he's the best translator in the game," said Professor of Japanese History Harold Bolitho. "We're tremendously lucky to have...
What the extremist special-interest grifters are failing to grasp is that the federal judiciary is not a democratic body. It was expressly constructed to be sheltered from the day-to-day whims of the people in order to better uphold the Constitution and maintain the rule of law. Federal judges are not elected nor are they subject to removal. They were placed above the political process by the framers of the constitution so they could check the excesses of the other two branches with impunity. Now, sadly, they have been dragged into the circus that they are supposed...
...readable. Seen in four dimensions -- not least of which is time -- the earth appears as an endless, slow-motion demolition derby. Untangling cause and effect challenges both mind and imagination. Nature has had 4 billion years to jumble the record, and geologists not even two generations to begin to grasp the mechanisms of continental drift...