Word: grabs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interplanetary war that follows has Metaluna looking like a giant pinball machine screaming "Tilt!" in seven different colors. What with dodging flaming meteors and grappling with odious mutants (half-human and half-insect monsters that have a weakness for female earthlings), Rex and Faith are mighty lucky to grab a seat on the last spaceship back to earth...
Senators Knowland, McCarthy, Millikin and Malone are not trying to grab the party leadership from him. Each goes his own way, seeks his own following. A mere hint of Ike's own reluctance to run will have little effect on such men, even though they know that Ike's unavailability might cost the party millions of votes. But an Eisenhower withdrawal that was attributed in part to the opposition inside his own party might have a drastic effect on party workers, who, after all, like to win elections. These party stalwarts could turn and blast forever the careers...
...Soviets enter conferences as they enter military battles. They open with a major offensive. They shoot the diplomatic works at their opponents. And when the opponents stagger they shoot another round. The United States already is late in trying to grab the initiative for peace. The wheels for a "summit" meeting are turning fast. The President should find an early opportunity to restate America's position on all outstanding world problems-a restatement that vividly portrays America's peaceful aims. He should reconsider doing this at the tenth anniversary meeting of the United Nations in San Francisco...
...well that it is now using them in more than half the nation. To help the Government sell a $90 million chunk of its surplus real estate, GSA called in private brokers to find clients and to close sales. Elsewhere, the Government has gotten rid of a whole grab bag of business activities it got into because nobody else could or would. It liquidated the Island Trading Co., a copra and trading firm (1954 sales: $3,000,000) set up by U.S. occupation officials in the Southwest Pacific, at a net profit...
...Crimson started off fast and took a 4-2 lead after the first period. In the second period, however, the varsity's play became sloppy. Poor stick-handling and passing combined with an inability to pick up loose balls enabled Middlebury to score six goals and grab a commanding 8-4 lead...