Word: grabs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...provide airlift and close support for its divisions. Lieut. General James Gavin, farseeing chief of Army Research and Development, says that "20,000 planes for the Army might not be enough." Last week the Army officially demanded long-range, high-speed aircraft to track its missiles. The Army grab for air power is seen by the Air Force as a clear threat to its independent existence...
...good that the people will speak for Wiley, especially since Democrats can cross over in the Wisconsin primary. What is more, the hardshell G.O.P. element may get another boomerang black eye. Candidate Davis must give up his House seat to run against Wiley, and the Democrats are conniving to grab...
...Pirates' First Baseman Dale Long came to bat in a game with the Phillies, he missed a home run by inches; his long drive to right bounced off the barrier for a double. In two more tries, Long belted two more shots that Philly outfielders just managed to grab. Then he got the range. In the eighth inning, he walloped the ball a country mile for his seventh home run in seven consecutive games, a major-league record that broke the six-game mark held by the St. Louis Browns' Ken Williams, the Giants' "Long George" Kelly...
...Athens, Governor Harding's stern decision touched off the worst street killings and disorders since the Communists tried to grab power in 1944. Blocked off by army barricades from the British embassy, Athens mobs stoned the U.S. Information Office and started a sprinting, shooting street fight with troops and cops in which three died, 200 were wounded. Greek Premier Constantine Karamanlis pleaded with the British to call off the executions. So did 30 British Labor M.P.s. And so, departing briefly from the U.S. decision to be neutral over Cyprus, did John Foster Dulles, who asked Britain's Selwyn...
...rude sounds of the old port of Naples. A ragged urchin tugged and chanted at him: "You wanna girl, mister? I gotta my sister for you. Come on, Joe! Cheap!" the sailor pulled away, then slumped drunkenly to the sidewalk. Mouse-quick, the eight-year-old tried to grab the sailor's wallet, but the sailor weakly pushed him away. Unable to roll the man, the urchin sped away to sell him: in Naples bigger urchins pay 500 lire, perhaps 1,000 lire, for news of a likely victim to beat...