Word: snatch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When she comes on stage, she looks like a nice, terribly shy girl in a long white gown. After a moment's pause and a demure curtsy, she suddenly chases the announcer, swings on the velvet curtain, howls a snatch of some unrefined ditty, walks on the side of her heels, pops her teeth and straddles the mike. Radio audiences miss much of this, but if television is just around the corner, Cass Daley's success has hardly begun...
Ryder made a last desperate snatch at life by falling in love with Lady Julia; lawyers coldly set in motion the legal wheels of divorce that would enable them to marry. But Brideshead revisited, Ryder found, was in as desperate a state as the rest of England. The chapel was closed. Lady Marchmain was dead. Lord Brideshead was married to the widow of an admiral who had also collected matchboxes. Charming Sebastian had wound up as sottish handyman to a kindly abbot in a Spanish monastery. And on the eve of World War II, wicked old Lord Marchmain himself came...
...first, Francesca (Ann Todd), a beautiful pianist whose fairly simple liking of men and pianos has led her into a complex state of emotional bewilderment, won't tell her doctors what ails her. It takes narcosis, hypnosis and a few bars of musical therapy to snatch the last veil of reserve from her tortured mind. As soon as the doctor's shot in the arm and soft talk begin to take effect, Francesca begins to remember a happy childhood followed by years of frustration. Her schoolmistress beats her across the knuckles; her bad-tempered but handsome guardian (James...
Seattleites queued up at newsstands to snatch out-of-town papers. Even the shop ping newspapers-which added a stickful of world news-were read. A rally for General Wainwright flopped for lack of buildup. Broadcasters expanded their news staffs, put classified ads on the air, free. But, as in St. Louis (TIME, Aug. 27), the disturbing fact was that most people seemed to get along without papers...
...multiple switch. Inside it, a scanning ray revolves like a clock hand, 8,000 times per second. Arranged like the numbers of the clock are 24 contacts, each connected with a different telephone. As the ray sweeps over a contact, it puts on the air a minuscule snatch of the voice passing through the telephone with which the contact is connected. When it moves to the next contact, the next telephone has its chance. To carry the voices the snatches (or "pulses") must be timed properly, which is how "Pulse Time Modulation" gets its name...