Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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FOREIGN POLICY. Bobby believes that the final TV foreign policy debate will be a trap for Nixon-and that G.O.P. Campaign Manager Len Hall has underestimated Jack Kennedy's grasp of foreign policy. "Jack was writing books on it before Nixon ever knew anything about it," he scoffs. "Jack had been to 30 foreign countries before Nixon had been to five...
...after 9:26 of the second period, Martin dribbled all by himself down the left sidelines, and got off a low, spinning shot toward the Big Red nets. Scotty Holmes, the Cornell goalie, confidently went down on one knee to stop the ball, but it spun out of his grasp and away from his desperate effort to retrieve...
...Lodge's U.N. performance. In polls showing presidential preferences among Republican voters during 1959 and the early months of 1960, Lodge consistently ran third, after Nixon and Rockefeller, though he had done nothing at all to stir up political interest in himself. One G.O.P. politician who did grasp the meaning of those polls was Richard Nixon who long before the conventions decided to make his stand on foreign policy. That made Lodge an obvious vice-presidential prospect, and Lodge was plainly receptive...
...Gaulle's failure to produce any new ideas for ending the Algerian fighting. At week's end, as the General moved slowly through Britanny on one of his periodic tours to test his hold over the French people, bagpipes skirled, women in lace caps strained to grasp his hand, and adulatory crowds joined him in emotional mass renditions of the Marseillaise. But back in Paris sobersided Le Monde sadly warned: "France has no chance of playing the role she legitimately claims in the world as long as this wound of Algeria is open on her side. Frenchmen will...
Best bit: coming on board for his first inspection tour, Captain Gregson spies the nubile young nanny of the ship's nursery in the grasp of a seaman. "What's your job?" the captain roars. "Babies, sir," says the pretty thing. "Carry on," says the captain...