Word: grabbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...superlative nor hopeless. Harlow declared after the game that he thought Paul Governali's work with the Varsity in last week's practice session had been of considerable benefit. On several of the successful Tiger aerials, the Nassau receivers were covered, but managed to outwrestle their Crimson defenders and grab the ball...
Married. Ed Wynn (real name: Isaiah Edwin Leopold), 59, lisping, giggling star of stage, screen, and radio, author-producer of Broadway hits (The Perfect Fool, The Grab Bag, Ed Wynn's Carnival), father of Cinemactor Keenan Wynn; and Dorothy Elizabeth Nesbitt, 41, of New Rochelle, N.Y.; he for the third time; she for the second; in Las Vegas...
...lands she had conquered Russia had brought not only the sword but the salvage crew and empty freight train. These instruments of conquest, like the sword, could summon up bitter resistance. Russia's eagerness to grab industrial equipment might get in the way of her more important program of political expansion. And Russia, wolfing her conquests in eastern Europe and Manchuria, hungered for still more that was outside the boardinghouse reach of the Red Army...
Last week the U.S. added new counts to its indictment of the Russian grab. Washington protested Russia's stripping of Hungary (see FOREIGN NEWS), and Edwin W. Pauley, chief U.S. reparations surveyor, charged that Russia's looting of Manchuria had stopped the wheels of $2 billion worth of industries and set back by a generation the industrial advancement of 900 million Asiatics...
...price would go far to complete the demoralization of currencies in many countries (Mexico, India, China) which the Silver Bloc's grab had started. As the silver price has risen, silver has gone out of circulation in nations using it for currency and flowed...