Word: snatch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...harsh heat of Cairo International Airport last year, a Chinese-American traveler idly watched a scrawny Egyptian newsboy. The boy got nowhere with his tabloid sheet. But when Richard C. Kao of Los Angeles saw the boy snatch a piece of bread from a restaurant table, Kao decided that he wanted a newspaper. He offered a ?5 note, his smallest bill. The boy quickly fetched the change. Counting it, Kao discovered that he had got his paper free. It was simple enough, the boy explained. The slender man "with the kind face" had only a ?5 note; he must...
...with all creatures, their god is in themselves and not in a high place in the sky . . . We, and all creatures, are left to fend for ourselves." To the reader of the slightest religious instinct, Author Sitwell's long and learned journey is about as enlightening as a snatch of nursery rhyme. And Sitwell, being a Sitwell, may have intended just that...
...daydream of every honest bookkeeper: snatch the company payroll, high-tail to Paris and set up light housekeeping with a reasonable facsimile of Brigitte Bardot. In A Taste for Champagne, Hans Con-ried, Monique Van Vooren and Scott Mc Kay make the caper come off with style...
...intake of a jet engine is like an unimaginably powerful vacuum cleaner, can snatch surprisingly heavy things right off the runway. Pliers, wrenches, cigarette lighters, coins and nails have all been found in jet innards, and even the least of these can sometimes do serious damage. So far, no jet airliner has suffered engine failure from this cause, but one such disaster would be too many...
Confidence ran high on both sides before the start of the mile, the day's first race. Jim Doty had come through with a tremendous 178 ft., 7 1/2 in. effort on his last attempt in the hammer throw to snatch first place away from Yale's Dave Cross by three inches. But, on the Yale side, Crimson sophomore Stan Doten's arm injury, which he sustained in getting off the bus the night before, had kept him from taking an important second or third...