Word: grab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lost. Three-fourths of Italy's bread requirements will have to be bought abroad with "old, the gold wrung from meagre exports and the tourist trade, the gold earmarked for coal, oil, steel, copper, nickel, tin -for a thousand commodities Italy lacks and must have to swagger and grab and fight like a great power...
...Orinoco Rivers in South America, electric eels have six electricity-generating organs extending lengthwise through their tails, which make up four-fifths of the eel's body. If a man or animal touches an electric eel, he will be mildly shocked. But if he were brash enough to grab both the eel's head and tail at the same time, he might get a 500-volt charge. These electric eels, which grow to 8 ft., 50 lb., swim about in stagnant pools, paralyze small fish by discharging electricity, can keep their prey unconscious for several hours, gobble them...
...Research is migrating to Yale. University officials have been completely taken by surprise, for they were not admitted to the secret before the general public. The circumstances immediately call to mind the case of Professor Baker's "47 Workshop," and arouse dark thoughts and suspicions of another New Haven "grab." But consideration will show these to do utterly baseless...
...properties owned by U. S. and British citizens (TIME, March 28). The game of oil must now be resumed in Mexico and, with such mulcted players as Standard Oil and Britain's Shell in a huff last week, there was a grand chance for Rickett & Smith to grab front seats at the Big Table before the wheel began to spin again. There ought to be bargains in Mexican oil today...
...section of the U. S. press and public was a horrified suspicion that Franklin Roosevelt wanted to make himself a dictator. Reason for this superficially bewildering paradox was, of course, that the Court Plan, brought up and beaten since the Reorganization Bill's inception, looked enough like a grab for power to make anything remotely resembling another power grab doubly alarming and doubly vulnerable...