Word: snatch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Against a swarming background, Playwright Hart tells the story of six typical young flyers. First half of Winged Victory spans the 15-month training period, from a rowdy first glimpse of camp to a jubilant parade-ground graduation. Betweenwhiles, the boys slog away, go on solo flights, snatch moments with their girls and wives. One of the six washes out, another is killed night-flying...
With these hustlers in the lineup, Cox's collection of castoffs won eight of their next ten games. They did astonishing things, such as scoring nine runs in one inning to snatch a game from the high & mighty Dodgers; then, just to prove that it was no fluke, scored ten runs in one inning two days later to trounce the Boston Braves...
...simple stories about weird people (Sample: "Of a girl, perverse and perhaps a little mad, who ran after the gypsies and found relief in witnessing a decapitation"), with settings in Scandinavia, Persia, Belgium, Paris, etc. Admirers of Author Dinesen's Seven Gothic Tales (TIME, April 9, 1934) will snatch at this; others may find her highly feminine, stylized prose a little overrich. One of the Book-of-the-Month Club's dual selections for June...
...campus doc boils in and sights her prey. She pulls the snatch and walks it to her hideout, but some prof at Harvard Med wants his foetus back. "It's my baby," says campus doc, "It's ours and it ain't a baby yet," say jokers. They...
...should [the President] go to such lengths to upset his supporters, to drive their spirits down and sometimes, even, to make them snatch at their thumbs? A certain American majority . . . has elected Mr. Roosevelt three times. We do not think that majority put him in there to appease Franco...