Word: grabbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grab. Dannie Heineman, whose friends and associates include such bigwigs as Herbert Hoover, Spain's Duke of Alba and Britain's Viscount Swinton, prevailed upon Belgium and Canada to protest March's actions. Franco, who had praised March for his "audacious nationalism," brushed them...
Mystery Man. To grab Ebro, Juan March had to outwit and outfight a foe as powerful, mysterious and secretive as himself: Dannie N. (for Nusbaum) Heineman, who, at 78, looks startlingly like the late J. P. Morgan, has some of Morgan's mania for collecting (he owns a collection of original manuscripts of De Maupassant, Mozart and Goethe...
Last week, by the time Joseph's balloon had cleared Knocke beach, the wind had freshened. The balloon was 1,000 feet up and heading north at 25 m.p.h. The men in the motorboat made one grab for Joseph's line as he whipped by overhead and missed. Joseph, who had faithfully promised his wife that he would not go more than ten miles...
...five-percenters" deserve all the condemnation that is being heaped upon them. But so far I have seen no criticism of the men who paid the bribes. Are they not also to blame? Is it not indicative of the greed and grab which pervades much of our American business...
...usual, the crowd stamped first into the "25 Dollar Room" to grab up the bargains-small pictures signed by such big-name summer residents as Reginald Marsh, Clay Bartlett and John Koch. Summertime Vermonter Paul Sample had forsaken landscapes to paint a dingy backstage ballet scene; John Taylor Arms sent a sheaf of his architectural etchings. But such relatively individualistic efforts were exceptions to the show as a whole...