Word: grabs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fairless' managing technique was to let men talk their grievances out, and if that didn't work, throw them out. Once he called two men in to talk over a quarrel. "When I made a grab for the other guy," one of the disputants recalls, "Ben grabbed me by the neck and threw me out of his office." He was tough in other ways. When pickets under William Z. Foster-then an A.F.L. organizer, now the top U.S. Communist-tried to close down the plant to organize it, Fairless decided that the best way to break...
...Grab a Tom Collins," the Aged Sage said to his thirsty disciple, "and everything will be just Reich. The team has been looking Foster and faster. Mama and Papantones will be coming up to see us Rambour backs up the middle of the line. Jennison is a bit Small, but he's tough. It we can Pierson line and Springier into the secondary we'll be set. Of Dorsett might be better to have Herr boy in the line, but we'd have to Warner first. He'll be a Thornton their side all Dey no matter what he plays...
...City Manager is an issue in a campaign which is fairly issue less. The independents claim that if Atkinson is not a dictator yet, he will greedily grab power and become one if the CCA wins another election. CCA men pooh-pooh the allegation. Whether Cambridge's 52,326 registered voters will agree remains to be seen...
Highest praise should go to President Truman and the nine Congressmen against the Rankin ("Veteran's Grab") Bill [TIME, Oct. 1] . . . No veteran wants to be treated as a member of a select group; if his country's cause is just, the veteran does not feel that his country is in debt to him for having served...
...sensitive skin (he breaks out in spots when exposed to Egypt's hot sunshine, never ventures outside without a protecting umbrella and gloves). His single-minded policy since his appointment last year: use every means-if necessary, threaten appeals to Russia-to get rid of those British and grab the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. To him, the Suez is dust in the enemy's eye; since Egypt depends for its life on the waters of the Nile, his real object is the river's headwaters in the Sudan...