Word: snatchings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with Kikuyu children on his father's coffee farm. He speaks Swahili, Meru, Kamba, Kikuyu, French and Afrikaans. Day after day, following China's directions, Henderson and Ruck drove into the forest, unarmed and alone. The forest had eyes, and one captured Mau Mau reported a snatch of dialogue between two Mau Mau sentinels...
...tough foreign legionnaires, Frenchmen, North Africans, Thais, Cambodians and Vietnamese snatch back one outpost. At 0800, De Castries counterattacks again, and fails. At 1000, he goes in for the third time-and wins. But two hours later, De Castries has to withdraw. Says an HQ spokesman: "This is the most violent struggle of the war." All day the French hang...
Without neglecting their vigil, most of the night watchmen find-time for personal relaxation while they sit in their offices, their ears attuned for phone calls and sounds of misbehavior. Many of them snatch glances at their favorite magazines, when no one is looking. Dugald Livingston of the Chemistry Laboratories, however, is an individualist. Any burglar second-storying his way into Mallinokrodt on the nights when Livingstond is on duty would be greeted with the errie sound of clarinet figures echoling up and down the shadowed stairways...
...shines up old claymores and dotes on mossy manor houses, Alastair claws his way to the top of the class and gets to Cambridge University-"a wee Scottie on the make." he gleefully calls himself. He takes Cathy away from Patrick as briskly and heartlessly as a cat would snatch a piece of meat, and he declaims his creed in the mocking tones of one who will never be shackled by ties of tradition and sentimentality. "We spit on Bonny Prince Charlie and Flora Macdonald. on Rizzio's blood and Mary Queen of Scots. [But of all Company Directors...
Then the practical difficulties began. Getting a body was not easy. It had to be someone recently dead, someone whose family would not object, someone who looked like an officer. Just as Montagu had decided that he might have to snatch a body from a graveyard, he found his corpse: a young man who had just died of pneumonia and whose relatives gave their permission on condition that his name never be divulged...