Word: grabs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such standbys as September in the Rain and East of the Sun, sentimentalists got a straight chorus to hang their memories on before taking off on a jaunt through the weird intervals, lurching rhythms and monotonous riffs of the bop landscape. "The public," Shearing explained, "needs a handle to grab before they'll really catch...
...meet the deadly menace of the U.S.S.R.'s submarines was a key task for the U.S. Navy, but it was only part of its function. The Navy's job, Sherman argued, was also to keep the fighting on the far side of the ocean, to help grab advance air bases, and to deliver the U.S.'s fighting strength when it was needed. For all these, the big carrier is still the Navy's most powerful basic weapon; it can roam anywhere, strike far and with surprise. The J.C.S. was willing to listen. In the new budget...
...unimportant, heavily defended islands of Maloelap and Wotje should be bypassed, and Kwajalein attacked in one long, 250-mile jump. Said Kelly Turner: "Admiral Spruance and I were astounded." But Sherman was right-so right that the Navy and Kelly Turner's amphibious-force troops hopped on to grab Eniwetok. Thus the Navy's spectacular leapfrogging technique was born. Often, Nimitz remembers, he and Sherman would retire to the big map room where they would talk, look at the map and think. Said Nimitz: "Sherman never hesitated when things looked worst. He's a realist without being...
Author Willingham went on to have an adolescent's daydream. Geraldine Brad-show, his second novel, is a 415-page, grab-by-grab description of how a smart bellhop tries to seduce a dumb-Dora elevator girl. It takes time: boy gets girl in bed on page 141; but girl is still standing off boy on page 414. The Willingham method is, of course, one way to keep a reader's attention. Nonetheless,the author sometimes seems hard put to fill space: "You come by here around six. All right...
Harry Butcher, then manager of the rival CBS station WJSV, was quick to grab him. In the deal, WJSV (now WTOP) got most of Godfrey's morning audience and 80% of his former sponsors. NBC retaliated by bringing down a New York announcer named Don Douglas to buck Arthur. Unreasonably terrified by the threat of big-city competition, Godfrey convinced Butcher that he should stay on the air all night to kill Douglas' first broadcast. Since WJSV closed down at midnight, Godfrey had to broadcast from the transmitter in a swamp near Alexandria, Va., with no other props...