Word: snatch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fight, all I can do is to make a profit"). He plunges into the black market and secret deals with the Axis, is snared by an avaricious blonde whose mind is as corrupt as his, and finds in the world's agony the perfect opportunity to snatch more pleasures. At war's end, Grant, aged and decayed, passes out with fright at the unexpected appearance of an old friend whom he had cheated years back. Grant's hallucinatory harangues, much like the buzzing of a neurotic bumblebee, are recorded by Miss Stead in unsparing detail. To expect...
Frightened parents snatch hopefully at news of any new drug for treating infantile paralysis. One such new drug is called Darvisul. A whitish powder and a member of the sulfa family, Darvisul's scientific name is N-( 2-thiazolyl)-phenol sulfonamide. At Lederle Laboratories, where it was developed, its "working names" are phenosulfazole or Drug...
Only the most skillfully concealed jewelry, fountain pens, watches or spectacles will escape pilfering from these ruffians. If they should discover an earring or a bracelet hidden in a seam of clothing they not only will take it but also angrily shoot the owner. They snatch all clothing but what is threadbare. Some refugees save their best garments or other belongings by bundling them deep within a burlap bag full of dirty rags, including urine-soaked baby clothes. The foul smell repels the bandits...
...such a world, Héctor Poleo has painted himself as a shriveled, sightless old man, ready for death to snatch him (see cut). In a corner of the canvas, like a bit of an old snapshot, is a tiny picture of Poleo as he really looks. Beneath that hangs one sick eye, freshly torn from its socket, staring, in dumb fascination, from a ruined wall...
Shamrock was a pleasure boat which, like scores of the other craft, had not been designed for the Dunkirk job (the armada even included three Thames flak ships). "I was [soon] numb to [danger]," says Shamrock Skipper Barrell. "It was hot bravery but just a will to snatch those boys." Barrell squeezed his way into the beaches among upturned boats and floating torpedoes. "Soldiers in the water trying to be sailors for the first time . . . paddled their collapsible little boats out to me with the butts of their rifles, and many shouted that they were sinking, we could not help...