Word: snatch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...might snatch night-soil...
...came out of [a Midwest club], my secretary overheard a snatch of conversation between two of the older members. One said, 'It has been fine having the British Ambassador here.' The reply: 'Yes, we haven't seen a steak like that in the club for two years.' ... I might add the memory of a man who wrote to my son after a similar informal gathering: 'I always thought the British were apt to outsmart us until I listened to Lord Halifax. Now I know it is not true...
...exaggerating its importance or Anglo-American failure to follow through with a positive policy in the Middle East and elsewhere might snatch away the victory's fruits. What happened at U.N. last week was this: when the Security Council met to discuss Iran, Russia was still absent. But Andrei Gromyko had written that Russia would withdraw her troops from Iran by early May and that "other questions" like oil and Azerbaijan were "not connected" with the evacuation. Next day Byrnes moved to accept the Soviet reply, with Russia and Iran making a further report on May 6. The Council...
...idea of migration, expatriation, or those deportations by which governments . . . snatch populations from their lands and homes ... the forsaking of healthy traditions and venerable customs ... the degradation of men in the humiliating status of a formless 'mass...
Macao rumor had it that he was sought by both the Chinese Central Government and the Communists as a collaborationist and profiteer. Despite the ransom note, many wondered whether the snatch at Kuan Yin Temple was for profit or politics-or both. At week's end the kidnappers upped the price to six piculs...