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Word: snatching (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jump, an event the Crimson has zeroed all year Godwin Nwokoye (45 ft. 7 in) and Pat Emery (43 ft. 7 in.) racked up a two-three finish for Harvard in the triple jump, and senior John Newman lumbered over 6 ft. 2 in. in the high jump to snatch second...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Runners Lose to Army In Exciting '67 Finale | 5/22/1967 | See Source »

...remarkably well-financed campaign organization. During the two weeks after the convention, Rolvaag formed a coalition with a Minneapolis trucking executive, Robert Short. Short -- who has owned things like the largest hotel in Minneapolis and the Los Angeles Lakers -- has been looking for years for a chance to snatch a major political office. He lingered in the shadows of the June convention as a possible compromise candidate for governor in case the Rolvaag and Keith factions became deadlocked...

Author: By Richard R. Edmonds, | Title: How to Get Mangled in Minnesota Politics: Sandy Keith Succumbs to Sympathy Vote | 11/1/1966 | See Source »

BORN FREE. Kenya's scenery is spectacular, but the big cats snatch the lion's share of attention in a delightful film version of Joy Adamson's book about Elsa the lioness, whose loyalty and intelligence would do credit to any species...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 13, 1966 | 5/13/1966 | See Source »

...rush right down to the Coop as soon as it opens today, you may be in time to snatch up one of the last remaining copies of Human Sexual Response, one of the fastest selling medical books since the Kinsey Report...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bookstores Find Sex Study Sells Well In Square | 4/28/1966 | See Source »

...that he also considered Berlin to have no strategic importance. Actually, Stalin always considered the city a prime prize. Through interviews with surviving Soviet military people, Ryan provides a fresh account of how Stalin called his marshals to Moscow and craftily hatched his scheme for the massive offensive to snatch Ber lin before the Allies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Final Agony | 4/1/1966 | See Source »

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