Word: grabs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nameless Swiss girl who allegedly said that the U.S. Secret Service agents assigned to the protection of the President at Geneva were "like gangsters" . . . that "Swiss civilians who happened to have their hands in their pockets when the President passed were startled to have husky U.S. Secret Service men grab them and pull their hands clear." This statement is absolutely untrue. I was in Geneva, and there were no such incidents. Agents of this service had no need to approach any spectator, and did not touch anyone...
...favorite method of impressing the voters is to grab for headlines; before the last election, Capitol Hill newsmen informally chose him as the Congressman with the most press releases. He once said that the recipe for success in Congress is to exhibit "the brashness of a sophomore . . . the perseverance of a bill collector." Last week, in the news vacuum that followed Congress' adjournment, Congressman Celler was exhibiting all the brashness and perseverance that he could muster...
Came Stalin's attempt to grab Greece, and the lovers took to the hills, where Niko raised the banner of bloody civil war. While Niko burned peasant villages and liquidated the old-line Communists who stood in his way to power, Roula, in her low-cut blouses and skin-tight riding pants, was promoted to commissar and recognized as the "Boss's Wife." Even in the hills, she was always well groomed, and in the words of one Communist deserter, "wore the only pair of nylons to be found in northern Greece...
...Bailey had the advantage of surprise. He turned in his chair and launched a looping right that landed on Powell's right cheekbone. Possibly as much from astonishment as anything, Powell went over backward. Bailey leaped after him, reached down to grab Powell by the collar, and was drawing back his right fist for another haymaker when other committee members grabbed him and pulled him away...
...save trouble, he had ordered over from Paris the 1942 Cadillac sedan he used during the war, now inherited by SHAPE Commander Al Gruenther. Swiss civilians who happened to have their hands in their pockets when the President passed were startled to have husky U.S. Secret Service men grab them and pull their hands clear. At the Palais des Nations, Britain's Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden drew up quietly in a Rolls-Royce, France's Edgar Faure in a little Citroën. But Ike's car swept up preceded and followed by carloads of hard...