Word: snaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scarred and swarming tenements along Harlem's East 108th Street have changed little since Gambler Frank Costello was a boy. The towers of the Triborough Bridge now float in the sky just beyond their chimneys, and a snare-drum roll of traffic drifts up from the modern East River Drive. Negroes and Puerto Ricans choke the slums to west and north. But the old neighborhood is still Italian. Its sidewalk garbage cans (each with its cover chained to prevent theft), its great, voracious rats, its smells, its endless noise, are the same...
Abdullah was scheduled to make a fortnight's tour of Spain, including Andalusia in the south, where his ancestors once ruled. A Spanish man-of-war will bear him home. Thus shrewd Francisco Franco would finish an important knot in the net with which he is trying to snare support in the Arab world...
...This is indeed a change from the days when those in the Annex were considered part of the local scenery, appearing in time for football games, and disappearing after the Yard Concerts--a group that spent its days taking notes and its nights playing bridge, using odd moments to snare men and write papers. Where this all led to nobody knew, or seemed to care--gone by the end of May, Radcliffe was always back in September and the faces seemed pretty much the same. Now it turns out that some graduate in the spring, and the event...
Four days later a C-54 tried again, this time releasing a glider and two-man crew for an air-ground pickup. Twice the tow plane managed to snare the glider on a pickup line. Both times the glider broke through the icy crust and bogged down in the snow; the pickup line snapped. The glider's crew joined the nine stranded men on the icecap. More food and clothing were dropped, along with heaters, fuel and a collapsible plywood shelter. The shivering airmen burrowed into the snow, rigged a canvas roof overhead as protection against the gale...
...matter how badly they want to win, Jaakko Mikkola's Varsity runners can't snare victory without any material. Judging from the way Rhode Island, Tufts, Holy Cross, and a comparatively weak Dartmouth squad have all run them into the dirt, Mikkola's runners just don't have it this year...