Word: grabbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...involved, were the weeks of work necessary to produce such color spreads as Morocco, the latest In resort, Normandy on the 25th anniversary of Dday, the new nude look in fashion and Venice besieged by the elements. "One of the greatest services we can render," says Baker, "is to grab a subject like oceanography or lasers, which don't instantly suggest color, and illuminate a whole area that might otherwise be buried in scientific texts." And sometimes, too, there are those subjects which suggest nothing but color-such as the rainbow-hued fall furs in Modern Living...
Loyal and Uncomfortable. It was a fitting if highly unorthodox way for the new Chancellor to commemorate his victory. For a while, there had been some doubt whether there would be a Brandt government at all. After last month's national elections, Brandt made a daring grab for power (TIME Cover, Oct. 10). Neither his Social Democrats nor the conservative Christian Democratic Union, partners for nearly three years in a Grand Coalition, had won an outright majority. Outmaneuvering the Christian Democrats, who won 242 seats in the 496-seat Bundestag to the Socialists' 224, Brandt formed an alliance...
...budget or small, no Hollywood film is complete these days without the "promo bit"-cross-country tours by the stars to plug the movie in the press and on TV. Lee Marvin has gone that route enough times to have pained memories: "Blah, blah, blah. Get stiff. Grab a shower. Take a plane. Blah, blah, blah. Get stiff...
...PLAN-AHEAD COOKBOOK: 300 DELECTABLE WAYS TO USE YOUR LEFTOVERS by Cecil Dyer. 246 pages. Macmillan. $5.95. Why don't you go ahead and eat, dear? I'll grab something on the way home...
...York fielders reinforced their pitchers as Agee and shortstop Bud Harrelson made spectacular catches. In the seventh inning, with the bases loaded, Agee dove to grab a dropping line drive and rob Baltimore's Paul Blair of an extra-base...