Word: snag
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remaining snag was the presence of British troops in Indonesia. To liquidate this problem, Clark Kerr shepherded The Netherlands' rotund Premier, Willem Schermerhorn, across the Channel for a chat with Clement Attlee. From the talks came quick results and a crisp communique: "An agreement was reached as regards the measures still necessary to liquidate the war with Japan and the gradual withdrawal of British troops and their replacement by Dutch forces...
Tuesday, Adams House with several backfield men injured, managed to snag a 7 to 6 victory over Dudley when Harry Booth went over on a line buck and then made the winning conversion. Sherman Hall caught a pass for the Commuters to make the first score by a civilian team against the Gold Coasters...
...Oberammergau, in the foothills of the Bavarian Alps, plans for next spring's revival of the world-famed Passion Play had hit a snag. Stars Alois Lang (the Christus), Anni Rutz (the Virgin Mary) and Willy Bierling (St. John) had been refused American Military Government permission to play their respective roles and were being held in Allied prisons as active members of the Nazi party. But one leading character, Hans Zwink, a regular member of the anti-Nazi movement, was ready to go on stage. His role: Judas...
...farmer, cemetery owner, and chief red-tape cutter of the 226-year-old pacifist Church of the Brethren ("Dunkers" - because they practice baptism by total immersion). For months Dunker Bushong had been pushing his church's own overseas relief program (TIME, July 24, 1944), only to strike a snag. City Dunkers had raised money for calves and feed. Country Dunkers had fed and fattened the animals into fine bulls and heifers. The Dunkers had the cattle but they had no ships...
...again be budgetable. By edict of the nine middle-aged men who sit on the Corset Advisory Board, Britain's "austerity" corset (TIME, Aug. 7) has gone the way of the bustle and the hoopskirt. No more will the cotton-and-cardboard stays bulge in the wrong places, snag up in coils where curves should be. There will now be unlimited steel for buckles, hooks,, studs; rubber for suspenders (garters); bone for busks (rigid frontal supports). For foundation and trimmings, there will be lace, plush, velvet. Britain's long-suffering women, plump from their starchy wartime diet, hailed...