Word: grab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said ". . .the increased wage levels set the stage for rise in prices to come-and more inflation." This points a moral for organized labor, but will they stop grabbing for more? Hell no. Not until they have gone through the bottom of the grab bag. Then the only comfort they will have is a feeling of togetherness as they queue up in the soup lines. How long will organized labor pursue this madcap race that will end with the dollarless dollar...
Power & Push. His first successful reach for big power came in 1940, when he was made negotiating chairman of the Central States Drivers Council, for which he talked contract for over-the-road drivers of twelve states. This kind of power was there for any aggressive man to grab. International President Dan Tobin, growing ineffectual after more than 30 years in office, was little more than a figurehead ruler of a vast, decentralized realm of baronies. In the Far West a redheaded baron named Dave Beck was already capitalizing on organizational weaknesses that fairly cried for a strong hand; stealthily...
...successful intercontinental ballistic missile. His diplomats rejected President Eisenhower's disarmament plan on the ground that peace-loving Russia had already called for a ban on nuclear war. And in Moscow his press printed three stern private speeches delivered about the time of Khrushchev's recent power grab, all showing the Soviet boss talking and acting more and more like the Stalin he affects to deplore...
...life five centuries ago in the castle of Tiffauges. His parents died before he was twelve, and he came under the wing of his grandfather, Jean de Craon, a notorious libertine and murderer who felt nothing was too bad to teach the boy and nothing was too good to grab for him. Grandfather attempted to wed the boy at 13 to the four-year-old daughter of a Norman lord, but that was too much even for medieval sensitivities, and the Parliament of Caen blocked the marriage. So Grandfather kidnaped the young heiress to the barony of Tiffauges...
...Tony Doria fought the action, finally arranged for the union to buy Dio's resignation. The price, cash on the barrelhead: $16,000. Dio took the money-and like a feudal prince, took his locals too. He moved over to the Teamsters and began trying to grab the New York Teamster leadership for ambitious Jimmy Hoffa...