Word: snatching
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THERE is a game some people play with their dogs. They hold a piece of food or a bone above the animal's head, tempting it, until the dog jumps up, ready to snatch the delicacy in its jaws. Then, these otherwise perfectly nice people yank the food away, out of reach, and the dog falls back to the ground, empty-mouthed...
...been asked to do menial tasks because she was black. Speaking for the majority, Kennedy said the statute prohibited "the refusal to enter into a contract" based on race, but not discrimination involving "postformation conduct" under a contract. Sniped dissenting Justice William Brennan: "What the court declines to snatch away with one hand, it takes with the other...
...next day, as a helicopter brought the open wooden coffin containing Khomeini's remains to the city's Behesht-e Zahra cemetery, nearly a million mourners thrust forward in the blistering heat and choking dust, many wailing and pounding their heads as they groped to touch the body and snatch a piece of the linen burial shroud...
...body doing not the act itself but the slo-mo replay. The photographers click away. Dukakis, one thinks, may have made a mistake -- in his outfit, with his large head, he looks like Charlie Brown, and something in his almost rueful body English suggests that Lucy is about to snatch the ball away again just as he kicks. Unfair: a reporter remarks, "This is part of Dukakis' relentless search for a constituency shorter than himself." In a few moments it is over. The kids yell in little voices: "Two, four, six, eight, who do we appreciate? Dukakis, Dukakis...
Hotel message boards reflect the close fraternity of men, and their wives, many of them members of the Adelines: "The Redwoods from N.Z. Are in Room 1109," "Alice and Albert, Have a Nice Day, John." At the souvenir tables, singers snatch up LPs by grand masters and $27 home-study tapes -- Theory of Harmony, How to Warm Up Your Voice. The camaraderie extends to the contest stage. The battle is to win, not to beat the other guy. " 'We' is the competition," notes a Chief of Staffer. No candy-shirted drunks around a barber pole at this convention...