Word: snatchings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hour for putting British liberties temporarily in pawn as a means of strengthening the kingdom's effort to snatch victory from the jaws of Blitzkrieg struck in the House of Commons last week. For reasons of high politics Winston Churchill was not there. This greatest of Conservative orators knows when it is more fitting to let others speak. An airplane had hustled the Prime Minister to France for a meeting of the Allied Supreme War Council...
...power by pitching in with Germany, it would be consistent for Russia to lean the other way, to keep Europe fighting as long as possible without getting into a big war herself-unless Russia thought the Allied case was hopeless, and went in with Germany and Italy to snatch her share of the spoils...
...spite of the flashing victories made by Crimson oarsmen, it was a valiant Syracuse varsity that stole the show on the river. After only eleven days of practice rowing together in the water, the Orange eight drove through to snatch second place honors from a strong M.I.T. crew by three-fifths of a second...
...this took place while the Mahatma toured Bengal, home province of fiery Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian Leftist leader whom the Mahatma ousted last year as president of the Indian National Congress Party. The Leftists, who think that now is the ideal time to snatch Indian independence away from war-beset Great Britain, have accused the Mahatma of too much dickering and stalling with the British...
Said a whimsical news paragraph: "Superman . . . will be missing from its regular space in the Star while he completes one of his mighty and mysterious tasks in his own inimitable way." While Star gazers wondered what Superman was up to now, U. S. readers saw him snatch Blitzen's dictator, Rutland's "warmongering" commander, set them down in no-man's-land to fight it out alone, while disgusted soldiers of both armies laid down their arms, went home to their spring plowing. This week, having ended World War II to his own satisfaction, Superman was back...