Word: snagging
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There are also manufacturing difficulties. Leather is scarce (some types cannot be got at all), paper is not too plentiful. But the big snag is the shortage of men in binderies and shipping rooms...
...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...