Word: snatchings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...selling sand in the Sahara. Though most Indians may not believe that life insurance causes death, many of them do feel that it defies and tempts the gods. For many Indians, furthermore, land seems the only smart investment, and attempts to sell them insurance are repulsed as schemes to snatch their money. There is, of course, little enough of that; the per capita income in India is only $69 a year, and people are so busy trying to keep alive that they have little time to worry about death...
...principal, superficially plausible, objection to the treaty is that underground testing or planned abrogation by a huge test series would allow the Soviets to snatch a decisive weaponry advantage. The President has argued, of course, that this is impossible. Unless the anti-treaty senators can themselves provide authoritative evidence for their claim, dissident members of the military must be their chief source...
...drain out of pure jealousy. The final gurgle comes when -unknown to him-the Happy Soap folks dig a swimming pool for Doris in the backyard where the driveway used to be. That night, whump! splosh! Garner goes down with his convertible as the sound track plays a snatch of sinking-of-the-Titanic music...
Help for Some. The backers of great Government spending for research and development contend that the Government's efforts have enabled the U.S. to snatch leadership in research from Europe and to produce 80% of the world's current research. Almost all the nation's breakthrough products of recent years-from jet planes to fertilizers to aerosol bombs-have been largely bankrolled by Washington. The only important basic products that business has devised wholly on its own are Bell Laboratories' transistors and the picture-in-seconds cameras of Polaroid...
...rigorous training young Soviet virtuosi grow up on and the day seemed especially bright for Oistrakh: of the winners at Brussels, three are his very own pupils. The Russian superiority, critics agreed, involved fidelity to the music, discipline-and the kind of maturity that let Michlin, 24, quickly snatch up the concertmaster's violin and go on playing when a string in his own instrument broke during his performance of a concerto written especially for the occasion...