Word: snatch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though introduction of most other models was days or weeks away, dealers teased buyers by surreptitiously showing off pictures of the '59s. Most of them have cleaner lines, less chrome. Trusted customers and fleet buyers even were allowed to snatch glimpses of the cars. In Chicago one major Chrysler Corp. dealer looked the other way while visitors tiptoed into the rear showrooms to peek at the new models. Almost all dealers were well ahead of last year in specific orders, figured that the growing recovery in the economy will keep sales improving. Dealers also look for a sales boost...
...dead his orphans be beggars, that no one should pity him, and that God always remember against him the sins of his parents. Even more "devilish," says Anglican Lewis, is the verse in the beautiful 137th Psalm in which "a blessing is pronounced on anyone who will snatch up a Babylonian baby and beat its brains out against the pavement...
...worsened that now, night after night, Civil Servant George "conducted" whole orchestras on his phonograph, laid grandiose plans for philharmonic "festivals," hired and fired entire woodwind sections. He also attended every major concert in the ungenerous hope that the conductor would drop dead and he, George Conway, could snatch the baton from the dying hand...
...Push, Man, Push!" Just three days later in Detroit, chunky "Chuck" Vinci, concentrating so hard that he managed a kind of self-hypnosis before each lift, beat Russia's Vladimir Stogov with the help of a hefty 231¼ lb. snatch. Dave Sheppard, heeding his teammates' shouts to "Push, man, push!'', lifted a total of 1,013¾ Ibs. for a second U.S. victory. The final score was Russia...
...press, in which the feet are slightly spread and never shifted, and the weight is lifted in two smooth movements: from floor to chest, then to arms' length overhead. The snatch, in which the weight is lifted from floor to the over head position in one explosive movement. The clean-and-jerk. in which the weight is hoisted neck-high while the lifter drops into a squat or split, then "jerked" aloft as the legs are straightened...