Word: grabbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...short shrift to many issues because the people themselves are uninterested. Talk about the gold outflow or trade protectionism makes audiences nod and yawn. It is a political axiom, and one of democracy's dilemmas, that only one issue per campaign, or two or three at most, can grab and hold the public...
...future? Nixon does not disagree with Humphrey's argument that the U.S. "cannot play the role of global gendarme." But neither man clearly explains just how the U.S. should defend its foreign allies and interests. To draw a specific perimeter of defense would obviously encourage aggressors to grab anything on the other side of the line. Still, the candidates could at least specify which areas they regard as vital to American security, while just as clearly reserving a right to move elsewhere, if need...
Underrated Australia (6:07.98) closed fast to grab the silver medal, and Russia churned out a 6:09.11 time for third place...
...sisters, and when he wants something and I don't give it to him right away, he throws a temper tantrum." If Mother seeks medical help, the doctor is soon exasperated as the little monster upsets ashtrays, spins the examining stool, snaps the tongue depressors, and tries to grab the guppies in the fish tank. At such moments, says California's Dr. Daniel M. Martin, "it behooves the doctor to suppress that 'urge to kill' look in his eyes...
Andy Meltzoff kicked strongly to grab fourth place in a photo finish. Rich Barton, Alan Long, and Phil Lichtenstein finished sixth, seventh, and ninth respectively to nail down the victory...