Word: grabbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...farm near Archerwill, Saskatchewan like any other healthy two-year-old. Then he developed a limp. Arthur Morton took his son to the local doctor for treatment, but the limp grew worse. The child's arms and legs lost their chubby firmness. His father saw him "grab at things and miss them by inches. He couldn't handle his toys and he'd run into the furniture and knock things over...
...boiling. Peyote buttons were dumped into it. After they had softened, they were fished out and passed around to be chewed. The liquid was doled out in cups. After that, said the observer, it was "every man for himself." Men hopped up with peyote, he reported, "are likely to grab the closest female, whatever age, kinfolk...
...race to rearm, the U.S. and other nations of'the free world have run smack up against a key problem: How should the free world's raw materials be divided? By overlooking this problem, while it tried to grab up a lion's share of all the strategic materials in sight, the U.S. has already stirred up a storm of hostility among its allies...
...normal times, no one begrudges the U.S. its big share. In fact, many producers would have no market without the U.S. But when war broke in Korea, almost every nation began to grab strategic materials-and the U.S. grabbed faster than anyone. As the U.S. bought materials for stockpiling prices rose so high that many nations were forced out of the market...
...conference has one big weakness: its committees are just fact-finding bodies with no power to force an agreement. Some nations which have shouted the loudest at the U.S. grab for raw materials have stalled the conference while they did some grabbing of their own. The wool committee has been deadlocked for weeks because Australia, which produces more than 25% of the world's wool, will not pool its wool and sacrifice the fancy prices it has been getting at auction. There are other complications. Britain is still shipping such strategic items as electrical and generating machinery to Russia...