Word: snatching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stopped there, I would never have found it worthy of anything more than a snicker in the dining hall. But as anyone who lives among the prodigious effluence of postered proclamations well knows, that is not the case. We are daily confronted with hundreds of insipid verbal schemes to snatch our attention, which, though they are sometimes amusing at first glance, soon become intolerably irritating...
...That snatch of conversation from Black Bible Chronicles is just one of many new attempts to make the Bible get with the program. One-third of American adults today have trouble decoding the King James Version, and 70% of teenagers in a typical week do not even bother to try, according to Barna Research Group, a religious polling firm. So religious publishers, eager to expand a $400 million Bible industry, are out peddling niche-oriented Bibles in a Babel of new interpretations and formats -- or, to paraphrase Shakespeare, quoting Scripture for their own purposes. "In a Baskin-Robbins % society, people...
...Clinton team scrutinize its next choices more? If the press could find Stephen Breyer's "Zoe Baird Problem" and Lani Guinier's inflammatory writings within a week of the release of their names, why couldn't Clinton & Co.? The public's disillusionment with the president could come from his snatch-and-grab appointments as much as his programs...
...even very far down. The stumbling economy still stands an outside chance of overtaking the U.S. in total production sometime in the next decade. Though the Liberal Democratic Party is torn by scandal and dissension, no other party or coalition is anywhere near strong enough yet to snatch away all its power. What passes for social protest in Japan might look like placidity elsewhere. A Japanese gripe session is likely to end on the word shoganai (roughly: nothing can be done about it). Though rap music has come to Japan, the most assertive lyrics decry too much monosodium glutamate...
...approaching, the first one closed the box and moved nonchalantly away until the second chimp moved on. Once the interloper was gone, the first chimp opened the box to claim the food. The second chimp, however, had cleverly hidden himself just out of sight and triumphantly returned to snatch the bananas. There are enough examples of such ape trickery to suggest that perhaps Koko really was lying when she made the signs "Kate there...