Word: grab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...indicated by the pronunciation, the correct spelling of this crime is kidnapping, (to nab a kid) and not "kidnaping" (perhaps to grab a child by the nape of the neck). We feel very incensed about this, and live in mortal fear of the day when the newspapers, not content to leave the extra "me" in program or pogrom, knock superfluous words from the names of the great. Picture to yourself such a headline, "Presidents Rosevelt, Hover, Lowel, Angel, and Con'nt confer with orators Ramsey M'Donald, Graham M'Namee...
...wish to see the return of the "free ball" to the rules. Said Columbia's Coach Lou Little: "Let the boys run with a loose ball. That's the instinctive, the natural thing to do. ... There was a lot of argument that inferior teams used to grab fumbles and score winning touchdowns for lucky victories. I think that's silly. . . . The game is 60 minutes long. If you're winning for 55 minutes, get careless, fumble, lose in the last five, that's your tough luck...
...time, Chiang went the limit last week and announced regular railway service would be reestablished on Nov. 10 between China and Manchukuo for the first time in two years. He hinted that postal service would soon be restored, thus pointing to virtual acquiescence by China in the land grab by which Japan seized Manchuria and set it up as the puppet state Manchukuo...
...refusal to grasp it must be disingenuous. Why should the divorce of our civil service from politics stop just on the threshold of social utility? Why should every office sufficiently exalted to arrest the interest of a capable man, or well paid enough to support him, remain in the grab bag of our party soothsayers? Why should the honest ambition of those men in our civil service who are able, but are declassed in the heinous hierarchy of our parties, be stified by the knowledge that the tempting rungs have been filched from the ladder, and are distributed...
...Giants, who frantically signalled a policeman. The policeman ran for a ball, tossed it to the President. Right arm upraised, President Roosevelt grinned for photographers, then sang out: "All right, here goes!" He tossed the ball among the Washington players who scrambled madly, big Heinie Manush leaping high to grab...