Word: grabs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Upton's booking was sharply criticized by witnesses. "He was just the guy nearest the front of the bus when the police came in to grab somebody," one bandsman said...
...British plan to merge Nyasaland with its neighbors, Northern and Southern Rhodesia, to form one big Central African Federation (TIME, Feb. 9). Africans opposed it, preferring distant Colonial Office rule to rule by Southern Rhodesia's white colonials, and fearing that federation would enable the whites to grab more land. A few "safeguards" for the Negroes were written into the Federation constitution, but the nationalist-minded Nyasaland African Congress was not satisfied...
...Monica, Calif., waited all day for the privilege of sitting on Susie's little white stool. After she had passed her hands over his ailing limbs, he said he felt no improvement, but would come back, perhaps stay a week. "After all," he said, "a drowning man will grab at any kind of a straw...
DETROIT'S automakers, now readying their 1954 models, are counting on bigger horsepower to give them a fast getaway in sales next year. Ford is stepping up the rating of its higher-priced models from 110 to 125 h.p., Mercury from 125 to 145 h.p. Hoping to grab the lead in the industry's horsepower race: Chrysler, whose new V-8 models may have 220-235 h.p. under the hood v. 180 last year...
...iron cot and closely guarded, counted one more obstacle out of his way. Now, though his unhappy country has lost one more source of stability, there was little left to challenge him except the Communist-led mobs, who now sing his praises, but whose leaders await his downfall to grab power for themselves...