Word: grabs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bevanites are already talking, in a casual way, about such a man. He is James Griffiths, a 61-year-old Welshman who came, like Nye Bevan, out of the coal mines. They hint that should Attlee drop out at some future date, Bevan himself might not grab for control. Privately, the Bevan followers say that silver-maned Jim Griffiths would be a fine bridge between the moderate, old-line Socialists and the left-wingers. An old-style trade unionist himself, he came from the revivalist meetings and coal dust of South Wales, eked out an education in London...
Housewives at their TV sets saw Robert Jones walk slowly to the window where his father stood. They saw a rescuer jump to the ledge and grab him. They saw him dragged into the building as he screamed, "I don't want to die! I don't want to die!" They saw him jabbed with a hypodermic and tied into a straitjacket...
...year ("I saw the time when I couldn't pay my grocery bill") until World War II found him with an interest in the war-rich Tampa Shipbuilding Co. In it, he made a lasting alliance with Florida Industrialist Louis Wolfson, 40, who had made millions from a grab bag of enterprises, ranging from ships, bridges, movie theaters, and plumbing supplies to selling scrap iron.* For $2,000,000 in 1945, he scooped up a surplus shipyard which cost the Government $20 million, liquidated it and cleared more than...
...King Farouk's high jinks; Latin American delegates plugged for amendments that made "unfair" reporting (i.e., unfavorable) of their affairs a crime. Behind these gripes stood the Communists, fanning every spark of resentment against the U.S. and Britain, charging that the U.S. convention was simply a naked power grab to protect the capitalistic interests of the Western world's news services...
...Wein to the conductor's satisfaction, everyone took fifteen minutes out for a cigarette. Then Bernstein returned to rehearse parts of Sibelius' Fifth Symphony. This time Bernstein tailored his gestures to the varied moods of the music. During strident passages he reached out toward the orchestra as if to grab handfuls of sound; during the lighter moments he bounced up and down and flapped his arms like a happy bird...