Word: snatchings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...billion a year that the war has been costing. The U.S. faces vast and pressing needs in the cities, the schools, the hospitals and the nation's very air and water. Many of its legislators and citizens thus see the ABM as a thief that would snatch away billions of dollars sorely needed for domestic use. The likely cost for the specific ABM program already begun is between $5 billion and $10 billion spread over several years?which is not really too immense a burden. But many are convinced that the ABM, once undertaken, is bound to grow in size...
...used to being loved by the viewing public -- though the only viewers who probably even know he exists are the few who stay tuned to Huntley-Brinkley after the news is over to hear the snatch of Beethoven as the credits roll up the screen. Huntley and Brinkley have always been those two congenial fellows with the wry wit who make digestion a little bit easier every night after dinner. They became something quite different during the Democratic convention. Their public turned on them, criticized them, and Northshield wonders...
...from Holland more than 50 years ago, and I am fed up! I am fed up with foreigners (who presumably have never lived here) having mock U.S. elections [Oct. 25], as they are doing in Holland at the present time. "Meddling in their affairs," indeed! Who has to snatch the chestnuts out of the fire for them? Who has to liberate them, feed them, clothe them, doctor them up, and put them back on their feet? Who lends them money, and more money (I don't see any of them refusing...
...influence. Secretary of State Dean Rusk stressed the U.S. resolve to protect West Germany and West Berlin from aggression. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko emphasized the Soviet Union's determination to retain its hold on Eastern Europe and warned that Russia would not allow any outsider "to snatch even one link" from the Socialist community of nations...
...identifies with the characters who for once look almost like real people fat, scrawny, drab, sassy, ordinary. He is caught up in a Jell-O ad, in which a snatch of conversation and a glimpse of beaming faces around the dinner table capture the mood and moment of a young soldier home on furlough. He is washed in nostalgia as a Kodak spot scans a lifetime by focusing on a greying couple as they rummage through old snapshots. Says Adman David Ogilvy: "The consumer isn't a moron she is your wife." Adwoman Mary Wells, president of Wells, Rich, Greene...