Word: grabs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Japan's Backers. Dismayed by the sheer number of its unheeded protests, the U. S. State Department was silent about Japan's land grab in Manchuria last week. Not so the French Foreign Office. Ever so tactfully in their gilded and ornate Quai D'orsay, French undersecretaries assured reporters that "the French Government's reaction, on the whole, is favorable...
...stretch of scenery. Unfortunately that particular land was not a part of Chhokrapur, belonged to the Maharajah of Deori, with whom the Prince was not on speaking terms. "Well, he's got a beautiful State," said Tutor Ackerley. "Very beautiful," His Highness agreed irritably. "I should like to grab it-like the Roman Emperors." The party came home without seeing a mongoose...
Greedy hands last week itched to grab 3,500 handsome red certificates. Each certificate represented 100 shares of Diamond Match Co. and the crisp paper pile was worth $4,500,000 on the New York Stock Exchange...
With a loud crack the ring on the starboard cable broke. The Akron rolled to port like a porpoise. As the ship lurched, 100 sailors in the port ground crew dragged with all their might. Some even climbed up the grab lines the better to hold down the bouncing ship.* A sudden blast of air drove the ship up, jerked the crew into the air. Most of them dropped off, sprawled in a heap on the ground. One plunked down 20 ft., fractured his arm. But soaring rapidly the Akron jerked three sailors so high that they dared...
...assembled one morning last week to watch the U. S. S. Akron dock for refueling after a turbulent transcontinental passage. Poking through a gradually lifting fog, the great ship dipped slowly three times, three times was whisked up by rising strata of warm air before the ground crews could grab the spider lines from rings on two dangling cables. The fourth time the crowd cheered as the crew caught hold, started to tug the Akron's tossing silver nose toward the stub mast...