Word: grab
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communists held their own in most areas, exploding the widespread assumption that they have been discredited by Red China's 14,000-square-mile land grab on India's northwest frontier...
...Jango") Goulart from gaining full executive power as President. But the result has been aimless drift and a leadership vacuum, under the Tweedledum-Tweedledee administration of power-stripped President Goulart and a dreamy Prime Minister named Tancredo Neves. As Quadros neared home, the danger of a Quadros power grab finally stirred Quadros' predecessor, President Juscelino Kubitschek, to speak...
Hayes was entirely willing, under this arrangement, to give a small portion (three out of 12 acres) of the land to the University, but he expressed a fear that if Harvard bought the property directly from the MTA, University officials "might grab all the land for educational purposes...
...torture called 'del ahogadito' -- the little drowning. They make you strip off every stitch of clothing down to your undershorts, then they distract your attention and when you are least expecting it, you get a punch in the stomach or the liver and before you catch your breath, they grab you by the hair and push you head first into a barrel of water . . . There were other tortures, like 'the little monkey.' In this one they strip the prisoner and put him up on a pole that goes across the room under the ceiling, making him hang head down...
...about a question of morality or a family thing that touches the very fibers of the heart, it hurts, and a man cries when he is alone. You must a man cries when he is alone. You must have noticed that many people drown themselves in drink and others grab a pistol and shoot themselves, because they cannot bear what they feel inside...