Word: snatched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lewis may be running a halfway house for hungry kids in one of the poorest and most wretched neighborhoods in America is shattered by the blare of an electronic siren. The girls know the drill: they file neatly out of the red brick firehouse while Lewis and his crew snatch up their coats and helmets. In a flash, all five firemen are aboard their truck and rocketing out of the station to handle one of the 70 emergency calls they receive each week at one of the busiest station houses in Chicago. The 17 fire fighters of Engine...
...which the mere expectation of sickness may cause the angst-ridden patient to hurtle towards death. Even though the articles start to resemble entries in a medical journal, compelling statistics--such as the 12 percent increase in "normal" U.S. suicide patterns following Marilyn Monroe's suicide in 1962--snatch the reader's attention whenever the discussion of endogenous opioids approaches the threshold of human tolerance...
Harvard police officers stormed Quincy House courtyard last night and apprehended a man who had allegedly attempted to snatch a woman's purse along the Charles River...
According to Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) Sergeant Robert J. Kotowski, the suspect--who is not affiliated with Harvard--approached a couple sitting on a bench by the river and attempted to snatch the purse which was resting on the bench between the victims...
Just what the Israelis were up to outside their zone in Lebanon remained unexplained. Lebanese sources speculated that the Israelis intended to snatch Sheik Abdul-Amir Kabalan, who has a house in Insariyeh and is influential in Amal, one of the Shi'ite militia groups. Israel has carried out such kidnappings before, but military insiders downplayed this theory. They hinted instead that the mission was to plant explosive devices in the area, targeted either at a nearby Hizballah post or an Amal encampment...