Word: grabs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expedient to appear to do so, the unblinking fact was on paper that Russia made all the concessions: it returned a military base and agreed to withdraw its troops, gave up economic privileges, and by handing over its share in joint companies tacitly abandoned-for now at least-its grab for the resources of the outer Chinese province of Sinkiang...
Female Barrier. The Air Force took over the city airport, which was named for a local hero, and then tried to change the name. For 18 months two local papers complained about the "Air Force grab." When two jet squadrons moved in with a roar-angry petitions were passed around. Relations were at "breaking point" when Colonel Shoup went to work. First, he decided to take and chart all phoned complaints...
...clear from the first day that the circus of the Army-McCarthy hearings would not be resumed by the Watkins committee. The ban on TV reduced the temptation to digression and disorder. Watkins had made it impossible for McCarthy to grab a microphone and run away with the hearings; the sound system was so installed that only two mikes could be turned on at a time-and then only on signal from the committee chairman...
...argument that followed, said a Frenchman, was "Homeric." After two hours Mendès got Chou to abandon his grab for Laotian territory, and to withdraw most of his support for the Pathet Laos claims. In exchange, Mendès accepted Communist Poland as a member of the three-nation supervisory commission agreed that major decisions should be by unanimous vote, thus yielding the Communists a veto...
...enable it to do 2½ times the work of a DC-7 or Super Constellation. Allen estimates that it will fly passengers at the same cost per mile as a propeller plane, be easier to maintain, less complicated to fly. His $20 million bet is that Boeing can grab off the peacetime commercial market just as it has cornered the military market for big bombers...