Word: snatching
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...hope he's wrong. People who would snatch Trafalgar Square pigeons for restaurant stewpots would snatch almost any animal, no matter how repulsive--although the Queen will be relieved to hear they'd probably draw the line at corgis...
While these questions and others only received sparse airing--the issue never received enough prominence for the Buchanan campaign to snatch it up as a new theme--the deeper implications of the controversy went largely unnoticed...
...this as a last resort.... I don't snatch people's monuments...
Then economic reality set in, accompanied by a strong whiff of prejudice pervading the American atmosphere. Mobs of predominantly Irish laborers charged that blacks were perpetual strike breakers who threatened to snatch up semi-skilled and skilled positions. In order to ensure themselves employment as artisans and craftsmen, the Irish organized boycotts of any firm that hired or trained blacks, thereby effectively excluding them from the trade sector and relegating them, ever downward, to more menial jobs. What prosperity New England blacks achieved between 1790 and 1830 was lost to Irish hostility, and the trend towards assimilation reversed...
...They swooped down to snatch up the vixen. And earlier this week, she was sentenced to 30 days in jail, 18 months of probation, 50 hours of community service and a $229 fine. The puritanical jury obviously didn't hold to the selective enforcement mentality that freed O.J. Nope, there weren't any extenuating circumstances to protect Ms. Angeli from They...