Word: snatch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there with the dead man's body for the rest of the night, then all through the next day and the next night, and into early hours of the following morning. He slept a few fretful moments on his tiny bench. Once or twice he whistled the snatch of a tune, nibbled on some food passed through an air lock, glanced at some magazines...
...impassioned speech, Rep. Robert S. Monahan yesterday nominated the purple finch, Carpodacus purpureus, for New Hampshire's state bird, urging the Legislature to snatch the bird before some more enterprising state grabs...
...administrators of the city's colleges knew all this, and perhaps never even slightly feared that Gates' oratorical bag of tricks would snatch up any innocent collegiate minds. But they also knew New York, and knew how the city's Opinion gets quickly up on its haunches when the word "Communist" appears, especially when a real live Red steps inside a city college's gates, paid for by city taxes. Yielding to the incipient pressure and potential indignation, the Administrative Council, whose salary is also paid by city taxes, saw no choice but to prohibit the Gates lecture...
...above). And he was making little progress with ex-Secretary-General Bela Kovacs of the Smallholders' Party, or with the Peasant Party's Istvan Bibo. During one of Radar's bumbling appeals over Radio Budapest, studio onlookers saw Deputy Premier and Defense Minister Ferenc Munnich snatch the script from the Premier's hand and denounce him as "an idiot" who was "misleading the nation...
Edith Hunter, in "The Questioning Child and Religion" [Oct. 8], speaks of the child who wants to go to the movies on Sundays so that Jesus won't come again and snatch her away. Wouldn't the child be safer in Miss Hunter's Unitarian Sunday school, for Jesus would never think of looking there! (THE REV.) GEORGE E. CONDIT...