Word: grab
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mufti and continue to run the country; Park himself was the leading candidate for the presidency. This pleasant prospect was shattered last January when Brigadier General Kim Chong Pil, husband of Park's niece and boss of the dreaded Central Intelligence Agency, quit the C.I.A. in order to grab control of the regime's civilian political organization, the Democratic-Republican Party. With Park's tacit approval, Kim, whose 30,000 snoopers had kept tabs on anything and anyone the junta might distrust-including members of the junta-infiltrated the party's power positions with...
Junta members objected to Kim's power grab as a blatant attempt to cut them out of the lion's share of the spoils. When they insisted that Park fire Kim from the party leadership, Park retaliated by sacking four of Kim's bitterest foes from the junta. But the four, all high-ranking officers, threatened to plunge South Korea into civil war unless Park brought Kim to heel. "The entire army is against you," one officer told Park. "You cannot...
...love them," he says. His collection lines the walls of his residences in Paris and in Manhattan, and each item is treated with as much affection as if it were the only one he possessed. Smiling genially behind his glasses, Wildenstein will suddenly get up from his chair, grab a visitor by the arm and begin steering him around the room. "Look at this," he will say, pointing to an illumination by the 16th century Italian artist Giorgio-Giulio Clovio. "It's a beauty. When one looks at a beautiful painting, il faut jouir, one should be enraptured...
...jury room outside while legal points were being argued in court, they chatted about everything except the case, knitted, read, and kept up a marathon pinochle game. On a first-name basis within two days, they held a World Series pool, decorated the jury room for a Christmas grab-bag party. The jurors never had a serious argument, and have already made plans for an annual reunion. When it was all over, Judge Herlands offered the seven men and six women immunity from all future federal jury duty. Proud of their service, none have accepted...
...store's lot. not even a ticket to be "validated at the time of a store purchase." Even though the store does not open until 9 a.m., the subway will begin carrying early-morning commuters at 7:30; at the very least, the Leonards hope to grab off some of the passengers for popcorn or a hot dog at the subway-station snack bar. ''We're dang poor merchants.'' drawls Obie Leonard, ''if we can't sell them something while we've got them here...