Word: grasps
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Likewise, those who criticize the Kennedy brothers' approval of an FBI wiretap of Martin Luther King Jr. are, in Schlesinger's book, "outsiders." Those on the inside understood the exigencies of the time and understood why the tap was necessary. Those on the outside really could not grasp the whole situation...
...best-known play, A Month in the Country, completed in 1850, is being revived at the McCarter Theater in Princeton, N.J. The company's reach exceeds its grasp by no small margin. Turgenev's setting is a vast country place filled with idle, frustrated souls who can turn a draw ing room into a tinderbox...
...Poetry have happened in publishing, but not many. The magazine never thrived, but it survived, outlasting decades of precarious financing, attempted coups by competing schools of poets and unvarying public in difference. Its monthly circulation rarely topped 9,000 copies, but the journal's reach vastly exceeded its grasp. Whether or not they always read Poetry, nearly every American poet who mattered in this century submitted manuscripts...
...energy. But first political obstacles must be overcome: there will have to be less pork-barreling of useless energy projects in key states, less reliance on higher energy prices which pose equity and distribution problems, less resistance to use of alternative power sources. "We have some solutions within our grasp," a Senate staffer confided last week, "but they still need to be translated into political reality...
Aside from resurfacing the Palmer-Dixon courts and completing minor refurbishments of the indoor track and tennis building, Reardon has presided over the renovation of the Dillon Field House, now almost completed. Despite those pleasantries, one amenity eludes his grasp: a new basketball facility...