Word: grab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...movements. For three nights the boy and his kidnaper slept in the car. Each morning the two drove into the back country west of Everett. They spent their days in the woods happily engrossed in nature study, fed small spiders to big spiders ("The big spiders would grab the little ones and roll them up in a ball. Bob said that was for their winter food"), once observed "a grouse, a muskrat and six deer all in a bunch." The nature lovers encountered a dog, which Lee named Rex. As the second day went by, Lee became weary, pleaded...
...rose over the coastal hills of Thracian Turkey. Huge amphibious tanks churned up golden Aegean beaches, and troop-laden helicopters scissored down out of azure Mediterranean skies. Then 8,000 U.S. Marines who had come 6,000 miles from Virginia in four weeks, landed in Turkey last week to grab a stake of ground just north of the historic shores of Gallipoli. The tactical problem set for NATO's Operation Deep Water was to assume that Turkey had been invaded from the north, and in 40 days' fighting, the Turkish NATO forces had been theoretically forced back more...
...grab bag" is an expression used to describe every freshman team during the first week of the fall term. But at this university the phrase belongs--and always has belonged--to Coach Dana Getchell, and his bag of tricks is the freshman soccer hopefuls...
Victory induces high spirits, and the first chance for victory will come when the freshman boosters will meet a fired-up Exeter team on October 9. Until then, we can only look into Getchell's grab...
...Communism's most direct and successful grab for power in South America, a dentist named Cheddi B. Jagan won an election and took office four years ago in British Guiana. Britain's embarrassed answer then was a task force of three warships and 700 troops to depose him. Last week, after the Northwestern University-educated dentist swept another election (TIME, Aug. 12), a wiser, gentler Britain tried a subtler answer-dumping the difficult problems of running the poverty-stricken little colony directly into Cheddi Jagan...