Word: grabs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arguing against a grab-bag veterans' pension bill in the House, Kennedy committed the political sin of insulting the American Legion ("The leadership of the American Legion has not had a constructive thought since...
...Coach Munro's Yardlings can fulfill their marksmanship potential and grab a moderate share of rebounds they should be able to compile a winning record in spite of their relatively diminutive basketball size...
...lessons in scavenging poured into the table microphones of the Senate Caucus Room in Washington as, one by one, independent garbage-collecting contractors told how Outsider Squillante used contacts in a Teamster union local to grab control of the Greater New York Carting Association. Bringing the cartmen into line, even to the point where owner-drivers had to join the union, Squillante's hold became such that he could, at a whim, leave thousands of businessmen and householders with garbage piling up day by day on the sidewalks...
...Crimson is not expected to grab any big headlines in this, the granddaddy of all cross country meets, but nonetheless it should manage to finish fairly high up among the fifty-odd college entries...
Most of the Indians were afraid that the withdrawal and relocation programs would somehow foreshadow the end of tribal culture (and, some said darkly, permit the white man to grab Indian lands). Rather than take Indians from the reservations (30% return, mostly because of loneliness), the U.S. should spend more money on industrial and agricultural development of reservation land. Snorted Coeur d'Alene Tribesman Joseph Garry, who is president of the National Congress of American Indians and a Democratic member of the Idaho House of Representatives: "As for the bureau giving us 'freedom,' we are free from...