Word: grabbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...black-bearded pfc. took up the story: "The Chinks hit the driver in the front machine, and that stopped the column. Everybody got rattled. As soon as somebody fell, the Chinks would grab his weapon. Somebody hollered 'There's one!' and I fired. But it was only a tree. Somebody hollered 'Let's get out of here.' I turned around and the world seemed to explode at my feet. Blood gushed everywhere. I knew I had had it then and there...
...opening bell, ex-Sailor Murphy came boring in like a brawling longshoreman, trying to land the knockout left that has polished off 50 out of 58 opponents, and made Murphy one of the top contenders for the light-heavyweight title. The referee had to warn Murphy against his grab-and-hit tactics (clutching with his right glove while pounding with his left). But Matthews was taking care of himself. He boxed with Marquess of Queensberry manners, but kept thumping powerful lefts & rights to Murphy's body. Later, when Murphy continued to bore in with a splendid disregard...
...Chance of a Lifetime's" chance comes when an English factory owner, tired of incessant labor disputes, offers to turn his plant over to its workers. The workers grab the chance, production soars, and the factory runs along with enthusiastic efficiency. But the workers are no managers, a complicated contract turns up, and they finally have to reactivate their old boss to help them out. It takes some remarkably restrained acting to keep the plot from soaking the moviegoer with a flood of melodrama...
...First National Bank, seats himself at the desk tagged Chairman of the Board and settles to work. At 10:30, Chairman Ernest Boyd MacNaughton marches out again and takes over his second desk as president of the Portland Oregonian (circ. 224,314). Finally, after a quick lunch at "a grab and grunt stand," Mr. Mac heads for his third and favorite job-president of Reed College (enrollment...
...bobbies are all benign, high-minded, comradely chaps, as alike as the buttons on a uniform. At home, they grow begonias; in the clubby atmosphere of the station house, they grab spare moments for darts and glee-club practice...