Word: snatched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...taxidermist spent quite some time looking for the Sasquatch in Canada, supported by an American millionaire. He used an original approach. He would snatch used sanitary napkins from women's bathrooms at gas stations, then run through the woods tacking them to trees in hopes they would attract a Sasquatch. If our mountain snowman when discovered really is abominable, he will have no trouble assimilating the traits of our society...
...finally, the Crimson icemen let Cornell off the hook (a three-goal hook) to allow the Big Red to snatch a 5-4 overtime victory from the jaws of defeat. It was a game of breaks, and Harvard just didn't seem to get them the way Cornell did. "We couldn't have played any better," Cleary said...
PHILADELPHIA--The Palestra in Philadelphia is a Mecca for basketball enthusiasts, and the ancient snakepit seems to inspire the Harvard basketball team, only to snatch success away in the waning moments of a game. On Saturday night the pattern was repeated as Harvard lost to Penn, 55-53, in the last second of play...
...Nakayama Racecourse. The betting set a record of $44.3 million. "There's something unhealthy about the way they played it this year," observed one official at the Ginza offtrack betting center. That same day, 300,000 shoppers crowded the Mitsukoshi Honten, Tokyo's largest department store, to snatch up a record $8,900,000 worth of goods...
Following a neck and neck first round Brooklyn pulled ahead and seemed to have the meet all sewn up. But the Crimson would not give up, and came on with a strong third round showing to snatch victory away from Brooklyn. Harvard pulled off an incredible ten wins in a row in the final round...