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...leaped to his feet. "Damn son of a bitch!" he shouted. "Black son of a bitch!" With fists clenched, he raced around the committee table. Bespectacled, 59-year-old Attorney Patterson held to his witness seat. Lanham broke past two attendants before a pair of Capitol policemen managed to grab him. Subdued, Congressman Lanham returned to his place, abruptly adjourned the hearing...
...women clothes hoarders, the New York Dress Institute last week suggested an awful punishment: "The inevitable cycle of change in fashion will mercilessly expose any woman with the grab instinct, leaving her high and dry with old-fashioned clothes, making her look foolish next year and out of step with smarter and more sensible women...
...coastal road, and her five-inchers blasted the silence. Again the firing lasted only a few minutes. Once more, eyes searched the blackness along the beach. At last came the welcome news: "Secure from general quarters." The crew members methodically secured their guns and gear, filed below to grab a few hours' sleep before dawn. The Juneau resumed its course toward North Korean waters, where there might be better targets of opportunity...
Before leaving Detroit for a tour of Canada, Britain's oldtime music-hall comedienne Grade Fields fired a parting shot at her fellow comedians: "Everybody is trying to be too clever and too quick these days. It's the day of the gag writer. The actors grab their dreary little scripts and study them frantically for a half hour, and then expect to put on a show...
...start of World War II, when Soviet Russia was an ally of Nazi Germany, the Russians grabbed the Eastern provinces of Poland. At the end of World War II, when the Russians were sponsoring a Communist-dominated regime in Poland, this land grab, which had greatly embittered the Poles, proved embarrassing to Moscow. The Russians suggested that Poland be compensated for her loss in the east by some choice German territory along her western borders. At Potsdam, for the sake of "harmony" with Russia, the U.S. and Britain agreed that Poland was to administer "provisionally" the strip of German territory...