Word: grabs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...airport cops who arrested him, he explained that he was broke, out of work and hungry. He had hoped that wherever the plane took him he might learn to read and write, then become a pilot. "I'm going to grab that animal again, when they let me go," he promised...
...purpose of the forgery apparently was to take the steam out of Ambassador Bowles's effective speeches against Communism. Newsmen guessed that Karanjia saw to it that the letter fell into Current Editor Karaka's hands -at a price of $210. Karanjia knew that Current would grab it, since Karaka was still smarting over an exclusive interview Bowles had injudiciously given the pro-Communist Blitz in July...
...Square riot, although there weren't enough Dartmouth men to give the 1,000 Harvards much action. Then the cops moved in to grab Bursar's cards; the mobs switched allegiance. They didn't even know what a Bursar's card was, much less have one in their wallets...
Florida. Senator Smathers announced that he would vote for Stevenson but would not campaign for him. Asked to introduce him at a forthcoming appearance in Florida, Smathers replied: "I would have to say that I do not agree with him on the tidelands oil grab, on the jail-sentence FEPC, and on gagging of the Senate." Meanwhile, a Florida politico petitioned the Democratic National Committee to unseat Richard Barker, Florida's national committeeman, because of his "lack of cooperation" in campaigning for Stevenson. Nevertheless, Stevenson seems to be ahead in Florida...
...plant at Oldham had been recently equipped with paint-making machinery to turn out 1,000,000 gallons a year, but try as he would, Proprietor Cartwright could not up his production beyond a quarter of that figure. Mollycoddling unions, idiotic government policies that let Japan and Germany grab good British markets, slackness, laziness, incompetence, stupidity-these were just some of the gnats that buzzed around the head of Chairman Cartwright as he sat at his desk opposite Managing Director William Pethybridge at Oldham one day last week...