Word: poach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United Mine Workers, John L. Lewis was at a crucial point of his down & up career. The mine operators had refused to write into a new contract a guaranty that the A. F. of L.'s puny but ambitious mine union should not be allowed to poach on his preserves-thereby endangering the solidity of U: M. W., the keystone of C. I. 0. And if Miner Lewis sought a showdown in the form of costly last ditch strike the security of U. M. W. and C. I. 0. would be equally endangered...
Early men were grouped into small hordes which had their own hunting grounds and, for self-preservation, intense feelings of solidarity. Members of other hordes were alarmingly different in customs, speech, appearance. In addition, these outsiders might poach on the hunting ground, steal roots and fruits. Hence it was an act of merit to kill them. As the art of hunting improved and methods were found of storing food, famines diminished and the hordes grew larger. Small, weak hordes were exterminated. The increase in size and decrease in number of the groups continued. Today the groups are nations...
...palace. She quarrels bitterly with her lover on a hotel terrace in the Dolomites, archly deserts him at a mountain railway station, wistfully marries him in a London registry office and, in a scene bristling with angry understanding, advises his brother's silly inamorata not to poach on her preserves. The water jump in this extraordinary chronicle is reached when her preoccupied husband pushes her off the stage on which he is rehearsing the ballet she has slaved to enable him to write, just after her baby by a former marriage has died in a charity hospital...
...last week no other peanut vendor had been alert or bold enough to poach the territory of "Steve" Vasilakos,. who gratefully donated one day's receipts ($9.45) to the President's Warm Springs Fund...