Word: snag
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crimson Varsity hoopmen ran into another shooting snag against the Elis in the Indoor Athletic Building Saturday night and were dumped unceremoniously into the bottom depths of the E.I.L., 54-40 (or fight). Yale outscored Harvard from the floor, 21 baskets to 19, and picked up the rest of the victory margin from the free throw line...
Coach Wes Fesler's high flying undefeated basketball forces run into their toughest snag thus far in the season as they encounter a powerful Army team at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon at West Point. At he same time at Milton, Skip Stahley's Yardlings will face Milton Academy...
...selective breeding strikes a snag when golden-haired Suzanna, chosen to mate with one of the elders who heavily depends on "signs" from on high, prefers instead the young inventor, who has no need of heavenly go signals...
...circulation snag hit by PM was Manhattan's delivery system. Morning papers are delivered by local dealers (cigar stores, confectioners), afternoon papers are usually sold on newsstands, rarely delivered. PM took subscriptions from thousands of curious New Yorkers, who then found that their local dealers were not anxious to deliver an afternoon paper. Meantime, PM's circulation was almost equally divided among city sales (mostly newsstand), suburban sales (newsstand and delivery) and copies by mail to out-of-town subscribers...
Immoderate and humorless as Marxian sectarian journalists, as human beings the Partisan Review editors are an eager, uneven, engaging crew. Happiest when criticizing critics, capitalizing on capitalists and declaring war on "Imperialist War," they are almost as happy when they can snag a literary lion. Of these they have snagged a pride, from Apostle Trotsky himself to such international camelo-pards as Andre Gide and Gertrude Stein. Latest catch is Poet T. S. Eliot's new, beautiful, 200-line poem for the current May-June issue...