Word: snatch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moved into the old country farmhouse where we now live, the boojums had had the run of the place and were annoyed at being ousted. They used to steal or break anything new we put in the house, pour water in the new paint cans for painting the house, snatch the hub caps off the cars of anyone ^ho tried to visit us, and generally made lift miserable...
Manpower. Since April, when President Roosevelt made tall, tan and terrific-Paul Vories McNutt head of WMC, Americans have expected the Manpower Tsar to start ordering them around: to tell businessmen whom they could hire, snatch housewives out of their homes. They did not realize that his title was ersatz, that he has authority to make policy but none to carry it out, that in all Washington there is hardly a man willing to lift a finger to give him that power. He cannot yet give orders to any worker. The nation's 6,500 independent draft boards take...
...groups of journalists, where beer flows free, and such minor equipment as bats and basealls are virtually forgotten, is one of the high spots of every year for the organizations. In times past the 'Poonsters have walked off with honored CRIMSON possessions, but probably the most notorious snatch occurred in 1941 when the "Crime" editors scaled the roof of the Lampoon building on Mount Auburn Street and sawed off the Ibis, the symbolic bird. It was returned several weeks later...
...have hospital ships ready during every action to snatch serious cases from the sick bays of the warships, and be ready to land complete mobile hospitals...
...spent his life trying to invent a Choctaw alphabet, and succeeded. Tishomingo has some of the fabulous charm which Fenimore Cooper gave his aborigines. And the last days and death of tough old Sam Dabney skirt the edge of really good romancing, only now & then breaking bounds to snatch a slice...