Word: grabbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unless large Sam Felton breaks a leg between now and 12:30 o'clock, Harvard should grab an early lead in the 27th annual indoor IC4A track and field championships at New York today...
...crux of the plot appears soon after. Parks is grabbed as a hostage, is recovered by his own clan who are then ambushed after they have just thrown a shake-and-be-friends banquet for the rival clan (following all this?) Parks has just time enough to grab his sword and change in his photogeuie, canary-yellow fencing jacket before he sets matters right. Tempers have quieted down in the end, but the colors are still blazing...
Investigators thought the Follansbee deal was an audacious attempt either to rig the market in Follansbee stock or to grab control of a steel mill to sell output in the grey market (see below). This week the elusive Mr. Fahye, who had been sought for several days, walked into the Attorney General's office. He was promptly jailed on a charge of violating the ban against security trading...
...Hole In the Ice." For everyone else, there was a whole grab bag of social and economic promises: extended unemployment compensation, health insurance, reclamation, federal aid for education and housing. Except for universal military training and the European Recovery Program, there was little or nothing that Candidate Henry Wallace could not approve. By bearing down hard again on his ten-point anti-inflation program, the President was aiming right at the Republicans' most vulnerable point...
...market . . . just to see who would leap at the chance to buy one." Columnist Elsa Maxwell reported that Author John Gunther (Inside U.S.A.) had told her he was reading Thucydides' Peloponnesian War "to learn all about modern politics and modern war." Added Elsa: "Maybe I didn't grab my old Thucydides that night...