Word: snatched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...invoking some of its sweeping priority powers for the first time in the war, ruled that hereafter, if employers ignore WMC regulations while the Government is trying to get 300,000 more workers into war plants, WPB may snatch away the offending company's fuel, materials, transportation...
...here, where the Germans were strongest, that Supreme Commander "Ike" Eisenhower apparently hoped to break them most decisively. The Big Push was violently shaking the German fence from end to end; as pickets fell off, Allied troops were shouldering through to snatch prizes like Strasbourg and Belfort. But such openings would not tear the German fence down. Only when Bradley burst through, or when Montgomery turned the end of the fence in The Netherlands, would the Allies be able to lay it flat...
...Turned the German Carpathian line. ¶Snatched from hungry German fingers the rich Bessarabian grain harvest, threatened to snatch the whole Rumanian breadbasket as well as the oil wells that supply one-third of the Wehrmacht's fuel. ¶Deprived the Welirmacht of some 300,000 Rumanian soldiers. Most of the fight had gone out of these troops (except in Transylvania, where they took up an old feud against the Hungarians...
...admirers-"veins of pure gold imbedded in masses of unpracticable quartz," according to Coventry Patmore. Hopkins introduced new rhythms, perceptible to the ear but dizzying to the eye. He coined words ("inscape," "instress," "scapish"); isolated prepositions ("What life half lifts the latch of, What hell stalks towards the snatch of"); left out connectives ("Save my hero, O Hero [that] savest"). Though sensory details delighted him ("skies of couple color, as a brinded cow"), his principal passion was the relation of man and nature...
...Girls. When the train stopped at Deshler, Private Beaulieu jumped outside to snatch some ice off a wagon near the train. "Boy, what we would have given for a piece of ice on Guadalcanal!" Down the platform strutted a good-looking blonde. The marines watched, listening to the tapping of her high heels...