Word: grabbings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Died. George H. Dixon, 65, author of the syndicated "Washington Scene," a grab bag column of nonpolitical cocktail-party and press-conference observations appearing daily since 1944; following a heart attack; in Washington. Sometimes sharp, more often corny, Dixon took aim at "the guy in the silk hat," up to and including the President of the U.S., which led him to describe 1965 as "the year of incision" and L.B.J. as "the abdominal showman...
...population is growing far faster than its food supply; with this year's severe drought, India faces its most critical food shortage in two decades. Apart from its domestic problems, India in the past adopted a holier-than-thou attitude toward American efforts to thwart the Communists' grab for South Viet Nam, but clamored for U.S. military help to repel Red China's threat to its own territory...
...speed loped the U.S. destroyer O'Brien, spitting rapid-fire salvos from its six main battery guns at 1½ tons a minute. "I've got Veecee hanging by their toes from my barbed wire," radioed a spotter. "I'm gonna put down the radio and grab my rifle." No need. By noon the Reds had faded away-leaving 175 dead behind them...
...staff officers over to the presidential palace to ask Kasavubu to start packing, followed that up with a formal letter offering him a permanent seat in the Congolese Senate. "The race for the top is finished," Mobutu declared. "Our political leaders had engaged in a sterile struggle to grab power without consideration for the welfare of the citizens. Political bank ruptcy was complete. We are going to change that and try to impose everywhere the spirit of discipline...
...Advocate's monotonous avant garde anomie turns away fellow-travelers as well as Philistines. The trick is to be artistic, and occasionally to snap out of it. Most of the pieces in the Advocate do not heighten or clarify what they talk about, nor do they entertain. They either grab the reader by the intellect and dare him to interpret them, or they flirt ambiguously with him. Too often the Advocate's authors "confound obscurity of expression with the expression of obscurity," as Poe put it. A good poem should sound good the first time around -- but it's entirely...