Word: snatch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Enrollment in engineering schools is only slightly more than in 1940, while industry's demand has increased tremendously under the impetus of war production. Worried industrialists also blame 1) the low birth rate of the '30s, which has kept college classes limited; 2) the armed forces, which snatch many engineering students before private industry gets them (the greatest concentration of M.I.T. graduates in the world now works at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base); 3) a wrong steer (fostered by prophetic experts) that engineering would soon be an overcrowded profession...
...yields meat (though only if killed) which tastes like a combination of mutton and beef. Teal plans to lead an expedition to Ellesmere Island in the Canadian archipelago next autumn (when this year's crop of musk-ox calves will have reached the size of police dogs), snatch eight of the small fry from their mothers, and bring them back to his Vermont farm...
...awakened. The technique used for this cruel intrusion will vary. It may be a thermometer inserted in her mouth, a pitcher of ice water placed on her table, or orders to get washed and readied for a breakfast which commonly arrives an hour or two later. Any attempt to snatch a brief rest during the remainder of the day is likely to end in disappointment due to the parade of the VIPs, who so space their visits that there is never an idle moment: the baby, the nurse, the nurse's aid, the room duster, the toilet polisher...
...prove that the Republicans have taken over from the pre-Roosevelt Democrats their famous ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory...
...better one). The editors of Britain's highbrow Architectural Review have now found a fresh distinction for him: give or take a few details, Thoreau did a startlingly good job of anticipating the modern house. With a layout of some recent U.S. designs, Architectural Review ran a snatch from Walden...