Word: snagging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...front I suppose we know less of what's going on in the war world-even at points only a few miles away-than anyone else in the warring countries. Getting hold of TIME gives us an informed feeling. Since Tunisia, back at the rear, I manage to snag onto someone's airmail edition quite regularly...
...government contract for $500,000 was easy to snag. Not so easy was the search for a camouflage covering which would be nonreflecting and flexible, yet would take paint so well that the flat-surface buildings, roads, trees, rocks painted on it would trick the eyes of Axis airmen. The company finally hit upon 1½ in.-mesh poultry wire, to which chicken feathers are glued with an asphalt adhesive. Because feathers are tough to handle, stick together on damp days, swirl around in the smallest breeze, methods and machines had to be devised to handle them. A special plant...
...Navy looked good to the Army too; Congress began to consider the rank of Field Marshal. But last week the program, which would have automatically put the traditional baton into the hands of Chief of Staff George Marshall (and given it to other generals later), hit a snag...
...search of their husbands, harassed hotel managers in quest of a settlement, marines, FBI men, portly women judges and a bayoneted lady sniper from the Soviet Embassy. Every time one of the hostesses heads for the altar, yet another face appears with bad news. But the three girls snag their prey at last, and Washington subsides into routine pandemonium...
...snag in recruiting student nurses is competition from war industry. Whereas a student nurse must work three years for nothing (except keep), industries pay girls while training them. About half the U.S. nursing schools now charge tuition-before the depression only 15% of the schools did so, and 88% of them actually gave their students $8 to $10 a month spending money. Average tuition has risen from $45 to $75 in the last decade. And with the armed forces boasting of the cash value in civilian life of the free training they often give their men, many girls think...