Word: grabs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Holiday & Amnesty. The day's ordeal had only just begun. The prince retired to change into white tie and tails and to grab a bite or two of a ham sandwich. Michi had her hair washed and reset, and, over a white and gold Western dress, for the first time donned the pearl-studded, golden Order of the Sacred Crown. At 2 p.m. the young couple officially reported the marriage to the Emperor and Empress. After exchanging cups of sake and going through the ritual of symbolic eating, the prince and his bride stepped into a rust-colored carriage...
...many a mainland citizen, the new proposals will seem a grab for the best of both worlds, stirring grumbling that Puerto Rico should be all the way in the U.S. or all the way out. Muñoz argues that the relationship is not fixed, but is intended to develop maximum freedom with the "permanent association." Congressional hearings will probably start next month...
...present time, the Atomic Energy Commission has assumed that responsibility. Recently however, the Public Health Service declared that logically such control should come under its own jurisdiction. The AEC, not caring to relinquish any part of its functions, accused the Health Service of a power grab, and decided to sit tight...
Tillich may be a great thinker, but human thought does not manufacture God. God is! Theology-totin' Tillich has got the cart before the horse. Prodigal man does not find God by high-flown speculations; God has to grab hold of his straying child. That's why his son came out of heaven, chasing after...
Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci said "Mr. Pompeo had better get over here before we wake up some morning and find out in the local press that the land grab has gone through...