Word: grab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...close ranks. The crisis spread to the Navy. As the new Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Robert Carney was entitled to live in a huge, turreted barn at the Naval Observatory, next door to the British Embassy, but he nursed a dark suspicion that the higher-ranking Radford might grab it first. To forestall an invasion, Carney leaked a strategic news item to a society columnist, who reported that "Admiral Carney says he expects to move into the admiral's house on Observatory Hill." Ridgway told the same columnist he intended to take over the Bradley house. Having lost...
...independent legislators. More and more in recent years, Congress has moved in their direction as the power of patronage and party machines has declined. A Light Hand on the Reins. Eisenhower apparently sensed that Congress had become so bit-shy that it would be folly for him to grab the reins with the determined grip that F.D.R. used. Had Ike tried, he might only have invited the congressional bucking that thwarted and infuriated Harry Truman. Ike adapted his tactics to the situation. He worked closely with Taft, Knowland, Speaker Martin and others-but he also went at the Congressmen...
Times Gone By (Cines; Italian Film Export) is an Italian-made grab bag of episodes that range all the way from the melodramatic to the slapstick. Based on short stories and a play by late 19th century Italian authors, the picture is held together by a rather flimsy plot device: a bookdealer (Aldo Fabrizi) who skims through tales...
...Reed quickly rounded up the Republicans on his own committee, who realized that their prestige would be seriously hurt if the House leadership made a complete end run around them. Said Pennsylvania's Republican Representative Dick Simpson: "Let's grab the ball." Unanimously, the 14 agreed to hold hearings on extending the excess profits tax, as Ike requested...
...brother Milton Eisenhower, president of Pennsylvania State College. Ike arrived at Milton's big grey-and-white house at 8:15 a.m. By 9 a.m., he and Milton were headed for the nine-hole Centre Hills Country Club. At noon, the brothers went back to the house to grab up fishing tackle, then set off for an afternoon's fishing (dry fly) on a nearby private estate. In five hours, the happy President hooked and landed 20 trout (brown, rainbow, brook). He threw back all but the five biggest, which were duly photographed, cooked and eaten...