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Defense v. Offense. The contrast is also apparent on the playing field. Arsenal's five internationals (players who compete for England, Ireland, Scotland or Wales) are defensive specialists; three of Chelsea's five internationals are offensive forwards. Arsenal plays a "smash and grab'' game, unpretty but effective, concentrating on defense until it gets a sudden scoring chance. Chelsea plays a "copy book" game, pretty but often ineffective, concentrating on deft dribbling and pinpoint passing...
...question of who owns the marginal lands does indeed remain in dispute, but the crucial issue is actually who will manage the land and use the oil revenue. Since paramount rights in the areas under consideration are vested in the United States, an attempt to grab them for the use of the three separate states involved is "robbery". Despite assumptions to the contrary, the Supreme Court declared in the California case of 1947 that the states had never held title to the submerged land...
...town during the first 20 years of the 20th century. Sentimental and nostalgic, it contrasts the old South with the new Southwest, lets its young hero illustrate the sound, old-fashioned theme "that it's what you put into life that matters and not what you try to grab out of it." Waco folks will undoubtedly be looking for themselves and their neighbors among the book's huge cast of characters. Cooper says they'll have no luck: all of his people are made up, "and I like some of them better than I do my friends...
...show the atmosphere in which this irresponsible decision was made, two oil lobbyists were actually present on the Senate floor during debate. The lobbyists coached Florida's Senator Spessard Holland in his fight for the state grab...
...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...