Word: grabbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Power Grab. The tragedy of the strike was that it was so easily avoidable. Privately, Shanker and McCoy had arranged a deal with Lindsay under which the ousted teachers would return to their schools for a few days. The community would temporarily tolerate them; eventually, the teachers-who could not have worked effectively in the hostile atmosphere-would be quietly transferred. McCoy, however, was unable to restrain the more militant blacks in the community. And Shanker used the breakdown of the agreement as an excuse to try to make his union the dominant power in the city's increasingly...
...frontiersman, it becomes clear that "it was just not in [Americans'] dynamic temper to become the peaceful Swiss of the Western Hemisphere." Yet Americans, De Riencourt insists, have been "fundamentally reluctant" imperialists. They have not really played the game of colonialism, which he defines as an ephemeral grab for pseudo empire. The problem is that history has given them no choice. Though there might once have been another option, this century's two world wars destroyed the chance for a united Europe and thrust the U.S. into the power vacuum...
...Maoist officer had overthrown left-wing President Alphonse Massamba-Debat, forcing him to flee to his native village. Hardly 20 hours later, the 47-year-old President was once more in office, called back by the army that had ousted him. Moreover, what originally looked like a left-wing grab for power turned out to be a putsch from the right...
...past nine years. "Then when the guys found out it was true, they just went ape. The bachelors were screaming, 'I knew I should have got married, I knew it!' One guy told me he was getting married as soon as he was out, so he could grab onto the program when he got thrown back...
...speaks from experience. Two angry Southerners followed him and his date out of a Detroit restaurant one night, announced they were going to teach him that colored boys should leave white girls alone. "One guy started to pull a pistol," he recalls, "but I was able to grab it before he could quite get it out of his pocket. I had to fight him in the street...