Word: grabs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lord Abbot Emeritus. Japanese public opinion continued with honest simplicity to support the Japanese Army's action in Manchuria for what it was, a land grab. But Japan has her equivalent to an Archbishop of Canterbury. Voluminous in his sombre robe, the Buddhist Elder, Count Kozui Otani, Lord Abbot Emeritus of the Great Western Hongwanji Temple at Kyoto, summoned U. S. correspondents and sonorously declared...
...running board, ordered the girls at gunpoint to drive up a lonely road. There he robbed them. Not satisfied with that, he began insulting the frightened young women, threatened "to get even for what their race had done to his.'' At this point, Nell Williams made a grab for the gun. The Negro shot her in the arm. He shot her sister in the stomach, and another slug tore into Miss Wood's spine. With her friends stretched groaning in the woods, Nell Williams jumped in the car and made for the nearest house, three miles away...
...rags and tatters, holes in their coarse cotton stockings, torn, heeless shoes, their dresses ripped and burst, dirty-they can't get soap to wash their faces and hands-and no cosmetics to make up. About as much sex appeal as a busted down tractor, but somehow they grab off the sailor lads...
...Snatch!?moral Miss Edith Picton-Tubervill tried to grab a green bookful of Irish Sweepstake tickets away from jovial John Beckett in the House of Commons? but Jovial John held on tight...
...Sister doesn't have any idea about how to do business and she already has almost lost the Temple. All she has now is a note for $250,000. Certain people are trying to make her look crazy so that they can declare she is not responsible and grab the Temple from...