Word: snatcher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Cambridge Police Sgt. Frank Pasquarello was assigned to show the city's new police commissioner, Ronnie Watson, the firehouse on Quincy and Broadway Streets on Wednesday, he never guessed the commissioner would handcuff an alleged purse-snatcher before the afternoon was over...
...grappling with the alleged purse-snatcher was an employee of the laboratory, according to McNamara. No one was injured, according to Pasquarello...
This prompted the Post, which doesn't have a dime to buy a banana from a pushcart, to lodge a lawsuit against the News. Hoffenberg charged that Zuckerman is a "vulture" and "body snatcher" who is trying to destroy the Post with his "crazy Kamikaze attack." The pages of both papers, meanwhile, barked daily accusations of impropriety and nasty innuendos about each other -- behaving, in other words, like tabloids. IT'S WAR! shrieked a Post banner. DAILY NEWS RAIDS THE POST...
...hearts," says Debra Smith, director of the National Adoption Information Clearinghouse in Rockville, Maryland. "They think, 'One more plate on the table is not such a big deal. We have something to offer, and the child needs us.' " Farrow fits the definition. "But she's not a baby snatcher," Tremitiere says. "If she were, she'd have 50 kids and not just 11. She's very selective in the children she puts into her family, so that they fit in age-wise and with handicaps that she knows she can be of help to." Farrow has recently taken...
...movie virtues: director Carl Franklin gives the actors space to breathe the rancid air of paperback tough- guy tragedy; and Williams, with her lovely insolence, looks like star quality from here. But to pin four-star raves on this modest melodrama is to mistake a 7-Eleven candy snatcher for a master thriller killer...