Word: snatch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...captained his first year team and stood out as one of the bright lights in a rather dull season. In his Sophomore year he gained prominence and a high rating by a brilliant 47-yard dash through the entire Dartmouth team in the last minute of play to snatch what seemed certain victory from the grasp of the invaders. Since that time French has been a consistent performer in all the games he has taken part in. His chief weakness lies in his susceptibility to injuries which have often kept him on the side lines when his presence...
...present Hungary is ruled by His Serene Highness Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya, Governor of the Kingdom−which has yet to choose a king. Count Bethlen, virtually a dictator, leans covertly toward the electionists. The legitimists suspect him of wanting to snatch for himself 15-year old Prince Otto's Crown...
...daughter Fleur, the only descendant that bred true to Forsyte pride and cynical acquisitiveness, has worried her fate to tragic anticlimax. In The White Monkey fate (and Soames) wrenched her from the love of her cousin Jon; in The Silver Spoon fate (and Soames) taught her to snatch what she wanted; in Swan Song again fate (but not Soames) brings her Jon that she might snatch him only to lose him forever. For of the Two Forsyte Interludes one has told charmingly of Jon's new love, and the other poignantly of Soames' meeting his old love...
...marry when the hay is in. Not till weeks after Joe has been killed horribly in an accident, does Naomi realize to her joy that he lives on in the child she bears. But her joyless parents, stiff-necked with the sour self-righteous Protestantism of the '80s, snatch up the offer of "noble" Caleb to take Naomi and give her bastard a name. Naomi suffers untold husbandly violations from Caleb, but comforts herself that some day she will tell Brook, her daughter and Joe's, of the beautiful passion by the gay brook for which the child...
...lake was a log cabin with a wet U. S. flag hanging over it. On the lake was a guide boat with a chair in it. In the chair sat a figure in a slicker and ten-gallon hat. He was watching trout come to the surface to snatch morsels of liver, their semiweekly rations. The surface of the lake was grey, desolate, broken. It was still raining...