Word: snatchings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gags and production numbers. There were two main types of gags--in-jokes and out-jokes. And there were two types of in-jokes--in-in-jokes and out-in-jokes. Now your average, knowledgeable Harvard man could get most of the out-in-jokes (those concerning "Operation Snatch," or the speed of "Prince Tun's tiger"), but with in-in-jokes he was at a loss...
...sewerage and sewage? Is the word "whereabouts" singular or plural? When does a pupil become a student? Find the errors in these sentences: "Dave Beck pleaded innocent today to a charge of grand larceny." "At least twelve hawks are making their homes atop city skyscrapers and zooming down to snatch pigeons." "Mr. Smith was changing a flat tire when a second car collided with his automobile." "The bulk of Mr. Getty's fortune is self-made...
...Pakistanis switched courts after every two games so that all the spectators could snatch a glimpse of squash at its best. The final score (Mohibulla's first...
...natives observe a rigid noonday ritual. The social elite-a breezy clique called the Palisades-Brentwood Singing and Drinking Association-hold court at cafeteria tables reserved by custom for them. Near by, like ladies in waiting, two plain girls snatch at conversational crumbs tossed by a pair of homecoming queens. At another table are the "social rejects"-girls on the fringes of the elite whose boy friends are now tired of them. "They are still allowed to go to parties," explains a guide, "but they aren't in on the really big decisions, like who the elite will back...
Minutewoman: Everything is asleep--except the evil underpass-building MDC agents, that is. They will come in the dawn one day and snatch away our sycamores in the flowering of their youth. We must guard them--with our lives, if necessary...