Word: grabbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accept wage freezes (TIME, Feb. 16). Fortified by Marshall Plan aid, which Cripps hailed as "a light and hope to the freedom-loving peoples of the world," Britain's Socialist Government felt that it was safely over some of the political rough spots, too. Russia's grab for Europe had rallied even most left-wing Laborite rebels behind the government...
...American to operate effectively as Chiang Kai-shek's Chief of Staff would have been a delicate operation at best. Stilwell in his diary quotes George Marshall as telling him, "Get the various factions together and grab command and in general give 'em the works." Whether Marshall said that or not, that is the way Stilwell went about his task...
...American lieutenant colonel had stumbled on the treasure, 2,000 feet underground in a German salt mine. After being on show for a month in Washington, the 202 paintings will be returned to Germany-but not to Berlin, for fear that the Russians might grab them, as they grabbed the treasures of the Zwinger in Dresden. Instead, they will probably go to Wiesbaden and Munich, in the U.S. zone...
Hundreds at Cornell know "Lib" Bailey, the nation's most eminent horticulturist, as an erect, white-haired man whom they used to see dragging strange bushes and branches across the campus to his laboratory, where he puttered and purred over them. Sometimes he would grab a visitor by the arm and whisk him off to his garden. There, showing off the blooms and blossoms he had collected from lonely hillsides and jungles all over the world, he would say that his field was the true internationalism: "My pinks speak all languages alike...
...Take an hour off and evaluate yourself in terms of a labor marked. Don't grab something you feel you won't enjoy. Better work is done, and more money generally earned from jobs the workers enjoy. Also, a successful season at a particular place should guarantee re-employment at increased salary...