Word: grab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...propose to "reform" the League of Nations: 1) in such a way that no matter what happens Chile would never have to join in either economic or military sanctions; 2) to bring non-members including Germany and Japan back into the League, presumably recognizing Japan's great land grab in China at this time...
...being the surest leg up in Britain to swift promotion for a smart young politician. Reputedly Hon. Bill attracted Sir Samuel's attention by his energy and gumption as private secretary to Lord Lytton on the commission which went to the Far East, reported on Japan's grab of Manchukuo (TIME...
...after any hungry nation makes a grab for the 7,083 islands that will then be the free and independent Philippine Republic, she will find her hands full. Whipping through the water at 60 m. p. h. and spraying torpedoes right & left will be 100 tiny Philippine defense boats. Backing them up will be 250 airplanes. On land will wait a well-trained standing army, 400,000 trained reserves. If the greedy nation is in earnest, she will need 500,000 men, $10,000,000,000 and three years to swallow the islands...
...Fair, It is a terrible thing for two cities to be only 33 miles apart. When Fort Worth heard that Dallas was to be the centre of Texas Centennial, her pride was pinched. Amon Carter and friends had got only a quarter of a million out of the Federal grab bag, but they determined to outdo Dallas. They sent for Fanny Brice's husband, little Billy Rose, most grandiloquent of U. S. showmen, the author of Barney Google. Presented to him was a contract reputedly for $1,000 a day for 100 days. Promptly Fort Worth's "Frontier...
...worst international crisis since the War, the League of Nations has done all that was expected of it--nothing. The enraged Flandin of a week ago has cooled down under the soothing effects of Eden's dilatory tactics and has even been induced to reach into the international grab-bag to pull out whatever he can. His plum consists of the proposal that a demilitarized zone policed by British and Italian troops be set up in the Rhineland, an offer which M. Flandin must know as well as Eden that the Hitler government will in no way accept...