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Word: grabs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...routine, company-size raid by the U.S. 7th Division on the Korean front near Chorwon. The focus of attack was a knob called Spud Hill, in the T-Bone mountain area. Air and artillery were to plaster the enemy position, then tank-supported infantry was to move up, grab prisoners, finish destroying Communist bunkers and tunnels. Code word: Operation Smack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Operation Smack | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

...Nkrumah broke with Danquah at an open-air meeting in the village of Saltpond. It was not his own idea. His "young men" threatened to ditch him if he did not grab the leadership from Danquah's "fuddy-duddies." Nkrumah got scared. He leaped on to a table and shefuted, "My life is in danger ... If I refuse to lead them, they will kill me!" At that, a girl disciple jumped up alongside him and started singing Lead, Kindly Light. The audience joined in, and Nkrumah suddenly knew that his hour had struck. His Convention People's Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Sunrise on the Gold Coast | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

...Grab & Milk. In New Orleans last week, Dr. Ronald Doig told a gathering of Southern medical researchers that just such a patient had appeared and had been studied at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. A Louisiana farm worker, he was so injured in an auto accident that all the higher centers of his brain were knocked out. Caring for him month after month at Shreveport Veterans Hospital was a forbidding task. Eventually, the doctors made an opening in the patient's abdominal wall and stomach for direct feeding. (This freed the patient of nose tubes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Emotionless Stomach | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

With the return of ice, Kirkland's hockey team also scored a win over Adams yesterday to grab second place in the House hockey standings. Dudley and Winthrop, third and fourth in the loop, meet tomorrow at the Boston Skating Club, and if ice time is available, first place Eliot will clash with Adams on Thursday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On the House | 2/3/1953 | See Source »

...worth more than I had and still made less profits. Some women won't buy anything unless they can pay a lot. They were ruining the business." Since the market crash had meanwhile driven the company's stock from $70 to $3, Mme. Rubinstein was able to grab back control and make her company "more or less elegant again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COSMETICS: Beauty's Handmaiden | 1/26/1953 | See Source »

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