Word: snatch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...news seeped out of the desert that French and Spanish forces were conducting a joint campaign to clear their Saharan possessions of Moroccan irregulars, Mohammed V launched on a tour of Morocco's southern border. Heretofore, Mohammed has kept himself carefully aloof from Moroccan extremists' attempts to snatch the potentially oil-rich Sahara away from France and Spain. At the oasis of M'mahid before a cheering throng of desert riders, he laid formal claim to the western Sahara-a claim based on the fact that 900 years ago his ancestors of the Almoravide Dynasty ruled...
...explorers tripped over three successive questions. Sample: Who was the first explorer to reach Timbuktu and live? Answer: Rene Caillie. The Brain's Brawn, an amateur champion weight lifter, did well the first two times around, pleaded for time out before attempting to lift 275 Ibs. from a snatch position and 330 Ibs. "clean and jerk." For fully five minutes, viewers watched Brawn parade in front of the camera, flexing muscle and steeling nerve. Finally, to the relief of several hundred thousand Frenchmen, he raised his weights sufficiently high; Brain and Brawn happily split their jackpot...
...Venezuelan Dictator-President Marcos Pérez Jiménez scrambled desperately to snatch back some of his waning authority and prestige. Last week he broke up a new plot masterminded by his longtime chief of staff. General Rómulo Fernández. 45, and hustled the general off to exile. At the same time, he partially reversed the humiliating Cabinet shuffle forced on him when his fortunes were at low ebb a fortnight ago (TIME...
...Jordan's excellent shooting and the aggressive rebounding of Cornell's 6 ft. 7 in. center, George Farley, proved the difference in this one, although in the last minute the Crimson did blow an opportunity to snatch the victory from the grasp...
...crews at Cape Canaveral got Big Annie III ready for her try last week, they worked coolly, deliberately, as though they were determined not to think of the stakes. But they knew all right, and so did the whole base, as the red-eyed crewmen plodded home to snatch a sandwich and a couple of hours of sleep and then head back to work long hours through the day and night...