Word: grab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...around to the Plaza, just across Fifth Avenue. As their cab paused, waiting an opportunity to turn in, a car drew up alongside. A man with a pistol leaped out, covered the taxi driver. Two others opened the door of the cab and leaned in. One made a grab at a necklace of square-cut emeralds and diamonds, the most obvious item among several hundred thousand dollars worth of jewelry that Mme Mathis was wearing. The jewels dug into her neck and she screamed. Furiously M. Mathis, who is 52 and does setting up exercises every morning, made a dive...
...agencies flared up at its hottest. First anonymously, then in the person of hardboiled, up-from-the-ranks Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine, New York's police officials filled the newspapers with charges that G-Man Hoover had broken his agreement with them and, purely to make headlines and grab all the credit, had endangered the lives of bystanders and firemen by his unnecessary gunplay...
...painted according to colored sketches. The background is in place. All very pretty and like a real forest. Even to the country dirt road and stone fence. S--shows me pictures of finished models on the walls. It takes months for just one. So struck by these that I grab my coat and ear muffs and to the University Museum to see the actual models. On the way out I bump into Pathe cameramen. The newsreel has learned of the Harvard Forest studios as soon...
Stanford's stocky Tony Calvelli may have thrown them just as straight but California's Vic Bottari had better receivers. Henry Sparks started things in the second quarter with a one-hand circus grab on the goal line and after that his teammates snaggled every pass they saw, not caring which Italian boy was throwing them. To California: 20 points, the Pacific Coast's traditional Big Game, plus a special trophy, the famed Stanford Ax. To Stanford...
...record during his few months in the senate proves that he has a mind of his own, as witness his American youth act, his investigation of the black legion, his proposal of a liberalizing amendment to the constitution, and his stoppage of the Minneapolis and St. Louis railroad grab. These accomplishments would do credit to any man's six years in the senate, to say nothing of six months. Then, with no previous experience in running for office, Mr. Benson went out and conducted a drive for election which would have done credit to the most seasoned campaigner...