Word: grabs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result, goalie Lindsay Fischer, himself fitted out with a special pad to protect an injured rib cage, was under constant pressure. Neither he nor McKeon had much mobility in the mud, but at least twice Fischer slid headlong to grab shots, and his remarkable performance was hardly marred by the fact that two goals got past...
...lives near Cannes on the French Riviera with his family and various European mistresses. From there, often with French concurrence, he has done everything he could do to subvert and destroy the struggling government of Premier Diem. In April, when the Binh Xuyen bandit army tried to grab Saigon, Bao Dai tried to fire Diem. Instead, Diem fought the Binh Xuyen back to the marshes of the Mekong River. Last summer Bao Dai directed an anti-Diem offensive by troops of the Hoa Hao sect, but Diem's troops scattered them. Said Bao Dai a fortnight...
...role in these TV giveaways is that of an Indian giver." Even the left-wing New Republic seemed shocked by the enormity of it all, since a successful contestant ". . . would have seen the income tax people (who don't know a thing about the Bible or Shakespeare) grab $19,000 of the kitty, leaving only . . . $13,000 for the extra risk...
...broad safety belt is buckled over his lap; shoulder straps are snapped to the safety belt and then to the seat to hold him in place when the water brakes grab. His elbows are cinched close to his sides by a strap running across his back. At 400 m.p.h. and over, wind blast can start a man's limbs flailing uncontrollably with bone-snapping force...
Three years ago the U.S. Department of Justice took out after American News Co., biggest U.S. wholesale magazine distributor, and its subsidiary, Union News Co., biggest newsstand vendor. American, the Government charged in an antitrust suit, used its newsstand subsidiary as a weapon to grab exclusive national distribution rights for magazines, and Union (at American's direction) refused to sell any publication without American's consent. To end this restraint of trade and discrimination against publishers, the Justice Department went to court to force American to give up its control of Union News...