Word: grab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...definite commitment until the Nazi Government could decide whether it would make more money by recognizing Ta Manchu Tikuo than it would lose by insulting the Nationalist Government of China. Even the U. S., most outspoken under the Hoover regime in its criticism of Japan's Manchurian grab, seemed ready for a change of heart last week. Henry Lewis Stimson had published manifestoes and baldly announced that under no condition would the U. S. recognize Manchukuo because it had been set up by force of arms in violation of the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact. President Roosevelt...
...wild mouse. No one knew what to do. One suggested that the Head Tutor be called. Another thought the animal ought to be done away with. He was cruel. In the meantime one of those men waiters who wear white coats and carry the really heavy dishes tried to grab the little mouse. But the mouse was under a table where a man from O entry was sitting. The man waiter thought he had the mouse in his hand but he really had Minerva's foot. Then she did scream. But the man from O entry surprised everyone because...
...between between the tycoons of the Industrial Advisory Board and the hard-boiled theorists of NRA. There he worked at his usual swift pace and demanded the same of his subordinates. One minute he would put in a long distance telephone call and the next grab up the receiver to demand "How about it?" Then he would go striding off down a corridor, pop into someone's office to ask a question, pop out again, race back to his desk. Amiable, casual in manner, he sped callers on their way with "Good luck, old boy. Thanks for coming...
...than you have ever done before. Being sort of a lawyer, I think you have libeled me by printing that picture with my name under it (TIME, Dec. 4). You must have hired one of these newspaper boys to slip up on me when I was not looking and grab that picture. I am so humiliated by it that I may resign from the Senate. So you had better be watching out for me. I might come up to see you with my shooting-irons...
...Take Nothing is a series of sketchy biographies, all rolled up into one gloriously gory volume by that master, Ernest Hemingway (Scribners, $2.00). A collection of sharp, straightforward stories, it holds a sinister fascination that tells us to urge you to go right down to the corner bookstore and grab up this new collection of short stories...