Word: grabs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Actually, Taft was trading part of his Texas claim for the Georgia grab, and stood to gain votes in the process...
...battle for the hotel doorman and passing Senators. Next day he appeared in court, pleaded innocent to Pearson's assault charge. As for Pearson, whose spaniel-like manner is in contrast with his terrier-type reporting, he got some sound advice from his cook, Margaret Brown. Advised Margaret: grab your assailant by the ears and pull his head down before he can get in the first wallop...
Evidence & Principle. In states where political parties are evenly balanced, it is not easy to take seriously the fear that one party will try to control the other. But in states such as Texas, the threat that members of the larger party will grab control of the smaller is always present. It is by no means established that this is, in fact, what happened in Texas. The bulk of the evidence suggests that most Ike voters were acting in good faith, were disgusted with the Fair Deal and saw Ike as the candidate most likely to turn the Democrats...
...only one example of the money poured by Wall Street into the Eisenhower campaign . . . Is the Eisenhower committee promising to pay their expenses to Chicago?" Estes Kefauver's campaign manager, Gael Sullivan, added a Democratic twist: "It is . . . as callous and calculated a come-on as the grab-and-squeeze tactics of Taft...
Acceptance. In Toronto, Haberdasher Abraham Goody, announcing a sale of men's pants, hung out a sign: "Grab Them While They Last," was shortly thereafter tied up by two men who escaped with 100 pairs...