Word: snatched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he remembered, it seemed more natural that he should have written Ann about the little sadnesses that had moved across his heart when he heard a snatch of a tune that carried a particular time back to him that night. It had made Vag aware with painful suddenness of people and places he had forgotten. And when that sadness had rushed over him, he had glanced over at Ann to see how she was doing...
There were other events, however, that bore out his prophecy. Tom Holyoke came through in great shape, with Mike Ford, to snatch five unlooked for, but opportune points. Fred Phinney, still in the process of recovering from an injury suffered during the cross-country season, and Bob Kent, who took places in the two-mile were all important in the victory, while Bill Palson's return to his old form when he came within an inch of taking third in the mile, was another outstanding example of the truth in Jaakko's words...
...boat was puttering past the subway bridge, a man attempting suicide leaped from the causeway into the water, and the occupants of the launch hurried to try and snatch him from the depths. After William J. Bingham, Director of Athletics, lost hold of the man, and a rope thrown from the bridge fell too short, the water-soaked victim went under twice. But William Atchley '43, assistant crew manager, pulled him not the best before he sank for the third time, and the shivering death-defler was taken to the Municipal District Commission...
...expects to take over its first $500,000 Constellation this June. When Constellations begin to roll off the Lockheed line, TWA hopes to get 40, Pan American 40. But the Army needs transports; and these will be the best transports going. The Army may not snatch the planes outright, may ask the airlines to operate them as air-cruising taxis for troops. TWA President Frye claims that 40 Constellations could transport 16,000 troops to Alaska in 26 hours, 7,500 troops to Hawaii in 48, make a round trip from Boston to Bristol, England...
...Varsity competition, based on the traditional yardstick of comparative scores, appears a toss-up. Both squads have lost to Princeton and Penn by mighty margins, with Yale rolling up a slightly greater minority of points in both meets. The Elis, however, did snatch a two-point win from the Army team which blanked Harvard...