Word: snatching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months after the snatch, a tipster went to Interpol's Paris headquarters and told of two men with no visible means of support who were rolling in money. The two: Pierre Larcher and Raymond Rolland. Investigating, the police called on Raymond's ex-wife and learned that early last April, Raymond had borrowed her Hermes typewriter and never returned...
...please touch me, Sir. Don't snatch my handkerchief away . . . Don't! My dog will bark...
...meeting with father. Haile Selassie made it scornfully clear that he considered Asfa Wassan only a dupe of others, "acting under coercion." The seeds of unrest among the educated minority of Ethiopians were still there and would grow. But it would take a stronger man than Asfa Wassan to snatch power from the little Lion of Judah...
...comparable to literary "realism"), made popular in the late igth century by Mascagni, Leonca--vallo, Puccini. Based on a one-act play by Chekhov, the opera had to do with a )': drunken bum masquerading as an admiral at a wedding party. Exposed when he fails to identify a snatch of Morse code, the -phony admiral exits, announcing with sad dignity: "If I were really a nobleman, I would challenge you all to a duel." The Admiral was studded with the kind of lush melody the Italians love-Andreoli borrowed much of the opera's outdated style from Mascagni...
...Hamlin, running with a severe cold, hung on grimly for ninth place, and Bob Knapp and Jack Benjamin displaced Dartmouth competitors by taking 10th and 11th. Was Hildreth exhibited the determination that drove the entire team yesterday by putting on a desperate closing sprint to snatch 12th place away from Indian Dud Hallagan after the meet had already been decided...