Word: snatch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the weird, camouflaged concrete of a Jap-built field the troop carriers took off. With them went Colonel Felix ("Snatch") Dupont's supply gliders (being used for the first time in the Philippines), loaded with pack howitzers, jeeps, radios and supplies. Over the flatlands at Luzon's tip the parachutists blossomed from their transports. Gliders slid into the high grass unopposed. Said wit nesses : like maneuvers on the village green...
...Tories, with Churchill's war achievement to trade on, were reconciled to losses but confident of victory. Labor, committed to a drastic socialist program, was sure of gains, uncertain of victory. Liberals hoped at most to snatch a vital balance of power. To a world anxiously inquiring: "Stands Britain where she did?'1, British voters would soon give an answer. Presumably it would...
...Army announced that it was taking the step because of civilian shortages. Whatever the reasons, its summary snatch of luxuries from the camps of its 300,000-odd German war prisoners seemed to satisfy everybody but the Germans...
...Politicians. Politically, the President will have the constant counsel of his longtime colleague in the Democratic organization-National Chairman Hannegan. At the Democratic National Convention in Chicago last year, it was Hannegan who lined up the big-city machines to snatch the Vice Presidential nomination away from Henry Wallace and his chief sponsor, P.A.C.'s Sidney Hillman...
...blow-recognition from Washington-fell. The U.S. State Department not only recognized Osmin Aguirre but urged other nations to do likewise. It probably wanted to complete its united Hemisphere front against Argentina in time for the Mexico City Conference. But Salvadorans feared that the little Dictator, thus encouraged, might snatch the Government from the less dreaded Castaneda and resume his tyranny...