Word: grabs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hershy Kay: Western Symphony (New York City Ballet Orchestra conducted by Leon Barzin; Vox, 1 LP). A grab bag of American tunes, famous (Good Night, Ladies) and infamous (Rye Whisky), written to order for George Balanchine's crack ballet company. Comments Balanchine aptly on the album cover: "It was exactly as if I had ordered . . . riding clothes, admirably cut, free in the seat, smart at the hips, and unobtrusively if personally elegant...
They endorsed Indonesia's attempt to grab Dutch New Guinea, endorsed the independence movement of Tunisia's and Morocco's nationalists, and pointedly emphasized that the conference will concentrate on "problems affecting national sovereignty, and of racialism and colonialism," all subjects loaded with feelings of animosity toward the West. Nehru also suggested that the theme of "peaceful coexistence" should go onto the agenda,* but his four colleagues persuaded him to drop that one. The purpose of the conference, the five agreed, will be "to further the course of world peace...
...telephone calls a day have been flooding into the library's reference center for answers to Tangle Towns clues. Pages have been torn from atlases, and thousands of dollars worth of other books mutilated or stolen. Fights have broken out when as many as 25 people tried to grab the same volume of an encyclopedia; some eager contestants have removed source books from their proper places on the shelves, hidden them where no one else could find them. Copies of the WPA's guide to New York state have not only disappeared from the library and most...
...Indonesia's name for Dutch New Guinea, which the Indonesians want to grab...
Miller admitted that guards used paddles on the boys, and some of them used belts to whip them. A former inmate told Addington: "They'd strip a boy to the waist and tell him to grab anything nearby while they whipped him loud with leather straps. We were told to watch, but we wouldn't. We would hold up our hands and cover our eyes...