Word: snagging
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...dining room of Texas Medical Center and got the flash: Beaumont was devastated. All he had known in advance was that the test would be within a week of an agreed date. He at once ordered the Baylor switchboard to send out the alert. But here came the first snag. The Houston Surgical Society was having a meeting in an inn near by, and the phone was busy. One doctor had to hoof it over to the inn to get the surgeons moving...
...minutes, 168 professional men and women (including 50 doctors) and 150 medical students gathered in an auditorium and 116 vehicles massed in the parking lot. Next snag: when the first convoy was ready to roll at 7:30, the one man authorized to order it out could not be found. He, in turn, was hunting for the one doctor qualified to say that it was set to go. That cost 33 precious minutes. Said Dr. James Schofield: "We made a basic error trying to spare people's feelings. There's got to be just one boss...
...snag has developed in Radcliffe's plans to celebrate its 75th anniversary, with the forced removal of the red, white, and black Radcliffe shield from the ice cream which was to be served at the celebration dinner...
...Russian propaganda machine, slogging away in all directions, finally hit a snag in India, where it has been trying to be winning. The Indian government took a delayed look at the latest edition of the Big Soviet Encyclopedia and turned to the name Mohandas K. Gandhi. "Author of the reactionary teachings of Gandhism," it read. "Hailing from the Banya caste, which engaged in trade and usury . . . actively helped British imperialism . . . betrayed the people and helped the imperialists against the people . . . aped the ascetics . . . pretended, in a demagogic way, to be a supporter of Indian independence and an enemy...
...snag resulted when one envelope caught in the chute and bottled up the other 17. When Lunden's office filled the orders for Saturday's game they missed these envelopes, which were in the recess of the chute...