Word: grabbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...policies that are anything but beneficent. If even rich nations like the U.S. have, too little land to keep their people passably well fed (as some of the doom-criers try to prove), then what should they do? The answer, for any vigorous people, is obvious. Go out and grab more land, clearing it, if necessary, of its present population...
...eleven poems Pound wrote behind U.S. barbed wire have since become known as the "Pisan Cantos" and bring up the rear of his life work, The Cantos. The Cantos, now totaling 84, are a chaotic grab-bag in which the reader can find whatever he wishes, for Pound is both a poetic genius whose work influenced Eliot, Joyce and Yeats, and an intellectual crank who toadied to political cutthroats...
...annual report to the House for 1943 was termed by Voorhis as only the personal report of the Chairman. There was no meeting held to discuss it Voorhis said. "It was presented to members on a 'take-it-or-leave-it' basis." And every time Dies tried to grab credit for something another agency had accomplished, Voorhis protested strongly...
...historian to duck any ugliness that must out. Young Washington is proof enough of that. He himself is aware that the first two volumes add few cubits to George Washington's stature. In the Virginia of Washington's day, writes Dr. Freeman, "One verb told the story . . . grab, grab, grab." Washington's father and grandfather had been successful grabbers in a relatively small way. Father Augustine (he was called Gus) could afford to send two of his sons to school in England, though George got his meager schooling at home. When he died in 1743, Gus Washington...
Well, it isn't black magic any more. It seems that football still depends on the 22 guys on the field at any one time. It seems that you have to grab the ball to use it; you have to control it to score; you have to score...