Word: snag
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such cracks as "Lies!" "A fairy tale!" "Hitler guilty!" This improvement of the jamming technique was quickly traced to the powerful transmitter RWL at Noginsk, 30 miles from Moscow, but the Nazis could do little about it. Sample broadcast, with interruptions by the voice, which Britons promptly christened Der Snag...
...Snag: In the grave...
...Snag: And what about German losses...
...power saws went to work like machine guns on the hot-topped snags (dead trees grown hard from standing) in the path of the fire, knocked them over like tenpins, one every eight minutes. (Average thickness: 44 in.) Regular fallers, working in crews of two, averaged one snag every two hours. After 14 hours of fire fighting, the score stood: 90 men with crosscut saws, 320 snags; six men with power saws, 220 snags...
...first novel out this week, What Makes Sammy| Run?,* Hollywood got a harpooning in just the way it argued could never be done. The evasive town had dodged shots by some expert marksmen-Novelists Aldous Huxley, John O'Hara, Nathanael West. But each seemed only to snag a loose end: the writer's world, the cowboys of Gower Gulch, the comedy of studio pomposity, the empty splendor of its rich...