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Word: grabbing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hours. The students did not resist arrest and the cops were so polite that one demonstrator was even led back inside to retrieve his forgotten books. When more militant demonstrators next occupied Moses Hall, damaging furniture and files, Heyns got tougher. He summoned off-campus cops to grab 72 of them in a predawn raid; although they submitted meekly, he immediately suspended all of them. The protesters then issued their call for a strike by students and faculty but had trouble even getting enough supporters to man picket lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: Striking Out at Berkeley | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

...more boring games, Cornell will host fifth-place Dartmouth, and Penn will try to grab third place in a contest with Columbia and Marty Domres...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton Hopes to Halt Yale Gridders While Struggling Cornell Hosts Indians | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

...into the air. This quick thinking seems a bit too quick, for my money. The three black boys then run out, and, just as Paul gets to the door to escape, a cop enters. Now how could this cop walk in at precisely that moment and fail to grab or shoot at (since this is a liberal play where cops should shoot rashly) any of the other culprits who just streamed out into the street? Don't ask me; I'm just calling...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: Sligar and Son | 11/9/1968 | See Source »

Most bankers disavow voracious intentions. They are, after all, sensitive to the popular concern that banks, with their vast resources, could grab too much control over the economy if permitted to do so. "We don't want to go into the steel business," says Chairman George S. Moore of Manhattan's First National City Bank, which recently won approval from Comptroller of the Currency William B. Camp to turn itself into a one-bank holding company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Banking: Venturing into Other Realms | 11/8/1968 | See Source »

Dick Jurgens, still in bad condition after a recent foot injury, finished strongly to grab sixth place in 16:40. Newly elected freshman captain Andy Meltzoff used his blistering kick to overtake two B.C. runners for seventh. Rick Barton was only seven seconds behind, but began his sprint too late and had to settle for eleventh. Phil Liechtenstein and Jake Seniuk rounded out the Harvard scoring with thirteenth and fourteenth places...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '72 Runners Win Greater Bostons | 10/30/1968 | See Source »

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