Word: grabbed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Questions. Once the first shock of the grab had passed, all kinds of questions began to rear their puzzling heads. The first was: How surprised were the Governments of the world at the second Czecho-Slovak coup...
...made fairly evident at week's end when French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet, badgered by Parliament for being taken by surprise by Herr Hitler's coup, blurted out that he had known something was in the wind as early as the Saturday before the Wednesday of the grab. He also said he had reported it to the British...
What Next? Where Germany would next plant her military boots was the next question. The Nazi majority in Lithuanian Memel were agitating last week for a "home in the Reich," but that was small change. More significant was the Nazis' tolerance in letting Hungary grab Carpatho-Ukraine. A smart stealing-casino player does not mind an opponent's getting a trick if he has the card that will steal his whole pile...
...76th Congress last week again resembled a desultory grab bag from which some members were trying to extract prizes, personal or political, while other members strove for distinction by staying their hands...
Anschluss, the CzechoSlovak grab nor construction of the Siegfried Line was permitted to interfere with the road building, which will be continued until 8,500 miles are completed...