Word: grab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thereafter, I did 93. . . . These are speedometer speeds, but the speedometer is one that satisfies Messrs. Rolls-Royce. . . . Farther on . . . I spoke a word of warning to my passengers and did a quick pull-up from 80 with both hands off the wheel. I was ready to grab and hold her, but the car stopped in a dead straight line as though snatched by a vast magnet...
...reputedly formidable junior varsity eleven from Hanover will grab for Crimson Jayvee scalps this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Harvard starters are: l.e., Jameson, l.t., Schmidt, l.g., Baum, c., Rick Hedblom, r.g., Tufts, r.t., Barkin, r.e., Knapp, q.b., Jerome, l.h.b., Kelly, r.h.b., Houghton, f.b., Cohen
...York) offered a 455-page volume in which these mutations in the life of the French Quarter were painstakingly recorded, together with a mass of miscellaneous information and legend on the city as a whole that gave The French Quarter some-thing of the air of an historical grab...
...team that wins a league pennant is capable of beating any other team. In a four-game series the element of luck often is the determining factor. Witness the example of Fitzimmons' pitching in the third game or specific instances like Whitehead's grab of De Maggio's line drive in the opener...
...neighborly, good-natured Kansas mutual admiration society, with ribald but affectionate swipes at the old 'Budget Balancer.' " It ended at Cleveland when the same group "managed to stumble through, and, by looking wise, seemed to be dominating the situation, which was controlled largely by guess and by grab, and, by good dumb luck, the situation always unfolded hours ahead of them." The Republican platform was shaped with Editor White representing Kansas on the Resolutions Committee. When the platform was finished he thanked his fellow members, and, not having talked to the Governor in six hours, promised that Landon...