Word: grabbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sent its dancers and acrobats, sponsored joint Russian-Iranian projects such as locust control on the border, even promised junketing President Kliment Voroshilov would come to Teheran next month in repayment for the Shah's 1956 visit to Moscow. But all Iranians remember Stalin's attempt to grab Azerbaijan in the north after World...
...Grab Life Jackets!" Rimmed on the lake shores were radio operators who heard the call, heard the voice of Captain Roland Bryan shouting...
...Grab life jackets! Get the jackets...
...General Telephone, the little giant of the phone business, the road up began in 1935 with the reorganization of Associated Telephone Utilities, a bankrupt grab bag of country telephone companies, mostly in the Midwest. Hampered by antique equipment, the company hung on through the '30s and the war years, in 1945 entered the postwar period with 713,453 telephones. The postwar shift to the suburbs and exurbs lifted that to 1,417,109 by 1951, when Power, a Winer Ohio State University economics professor, law partner of Senator John Bricker and general counsel to Ohio's Public Utilities...
...Pulitzer Prize for her Broadway adaptation of Edith Wharton's The Old Maid, but despite her durable professional success she deplored "the tragedy of feminine careers." Writing for Hollywood was "not difficult," she said. "All you have to do is write six pages every day, then grab the money and run for the train...