Word: grabbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...done any of those things ... I would have walked right up to Horace Stoneham and [resigned] . . . because I know that I would be through with 'baseball." Leo said he had merely given a shove to somebody who came up behind him and who, he thought, was trying to grab...
...have men's suits & coats from $19.95 to $38.95 and women's dresses from $2.95 to $10.95. Their low overhead is a fact: they are in the cheapest possible quarters. By slashing markup to the bone, clothing is sold the way supermarkets sell groceries. Customers simply grab what they want from pipe-racks, pay cash and carry their purchases away...
Dormitories and clubs are joining this year in the project which includes food booths, fortune tellers procured by Bertram Hall, a ring toss sponsored by the Catholic Club, and a fishbowl-grab managed by Cabot Hall residents. The Pan American Club has the soft drink concession...
People are not expected to cheat in the Wellesley bike race. Perhaps this is because it is quite difficult to chest. In fact just about the only way to circumvent the law is to grab the tailboard of a passing truck; or have a friend over the next hill with a motorcycle...
Defensive Russians. Waiting for U.N. action were these major issues: the proposed admission to U.N. of Israel; the question of diplomatic relations with Franco Spain*; the Dutch-Indonesian dispute; and the disposition of the former Italian colonies. In the Political Committee, the Russians promptly made a grab for partial control of the Italian colonies. The U.S. (backed by Britain) wanted to give part of Eritrea to Ethiopia, proposed giving Britain U.N. trusteeship over Cyrenaica, and Italy trusteeship over Italian Somaliland. The U.S. and Britain, rasped Russia's Andrei Gromyko, were trying to divide up the colonies "as if they...