Word: snatchings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...carnivores feed on a gullible mass and a demoralized middle class. It is a place where the grotesque is made to seem normal. In 1972 the inflation rate is 60% a year and rising; urban guerrillas kidnap and rob at will; the Ford Falcons of the secret police snatch people off the streets of Buenos Aires as pedestrians go about their business. Perón returns, as does the embalmed body of Eva, "the blond hair as rich as in the time of health...
...could now look forward to was "a good night's sleep." Editor Ronald Landfried of the weekly Lake Placid News wrote of a "nagging feeling of melancholy." Librarian Therese Dixon admitted to a "tinge of sadness." She missed the foreigners who dropped in off Main Street to snatch a look at such papers as Le Monde, Corriere della Sera and the Neues Deutschland-publications ordered for the convenience of the Olympic crowd...
...slide projector to display the returns on a screen. He also jokingly mentioned his scheme to send one of George Bush's most articulate supporters out to phone in the straw-poll results. "While he's gone," chuckled Kalal, thinking how he might then snatch up all the delegates for Reagan, "I'm going to move very rapidly...