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Word: grasps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Even many of the hostages after some years of it could not understand it, could not grasp it. We need to understand these people, we've got to understand their motives, how their minds work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terry Anderson: The World is Fresh and Bright and Beautiful | 5/18/1992 | See Source »

...ending. Myatt and her siblings want to move Kingery to a Morgantown, Ky., nursing home so they can better watch over him. Says Myatt's brother Charles, a Morgantown resident: "We want to bring him back here, close to the family." Although he will probably never be able to grasp it fully, John Kingery has a lot of grandchildren and even great-grandchildren waiting to welcome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: Lost and Found | 4/13/1992 | See Source »

Sometimes the band offers the listener some Spanish lyric and then translates them into easy-to-grasp English. In "She Gone" is the line: "On the sunny side of the street/en el lado soladio de tu calle." I am not sure of the intent here; maybe this is an allusion to U2's recent bilingual title: "Achtung Baby...

Author: By Marc D. Zelanko, | Title: Mere Imitation of the Stars | 4/9/1992 | See Source »

...romance that Forster and his generation felt for northern Italy. It summons the glory days when the English commandeered the Continent as if it were a feral cricket pitch and great novelists wrote about gentry who were slow to realize that Italy held in its heart secrets beyond their grasp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Summoning The Glory Days | 3/16/1992 | See Source »

...likely choice, Wells Professor of Political Economy Jerry R. Green, is said to have the grasp of economics and the youth, at age 45, to help lead Harvard through the fund drive and into the next century...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: New Appointment Key To Rudenstine Vision | 3/5/1992 | See Source »

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