Word: snatchings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Compensation. Near Long Beach, Calif., Harold Hartigan went duck hunting in Anaheim Slough, bagged a sea bass stranded by the tide; Don Jasiewicz went fishing for sea bass, snagged a duck that tried to snatch his bait...
...abandoned ranch house, while she herself spent the night some 70 miles away at Las Vegas. In the yellow convertible were two other notes addressed to other well-to-do Santa Fe parents, whose children Dr. Campbell apparently planned to kidnap if she had failed to snatch Linda...
Chief among the reasons for the new saving of life was the speed with which the wounded got to hospitals. As in all wars, litter bearers went in to snatch the wounded from under enemy fire (TIME, Aug. 7); usually there was a jolting ride by jeep or ambulance back from the front lines. But from that point, the Korean war was different...
After the snatch, the general (who quickly became resigned and quite amiable) was rnarched from cave to cave half the length of Crete, while the furious Germans fruitlessly finecombed the island. By the time a Royal Navy motor launch nosed in to a southwest beach and took off both captive and captors, Moss and Leigh-Fermor knew that they had achieved their principal aim-to astound the enemy and make him the laughingstock of the local population...
...Gene Talmadge, then switched to elect Talmadge against Arnall's picked successor ("I wouldn't go along with him when he started registering all the niggers so I built up the picture for Gene"). When "Ol Gene" died, Roy engineered son Herman's attempt to snatch the governorship. He had gotten the poll tax repealed for Arnall; he got the white-supremacy primary passed for Herman...