Word: snatchings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...afford a return to public attention. For ABC reporters, the spotlight can make or break careers. Anchor Jim McKay, 62, who became the voice of the Olympics at Munich in 1972, still appears earnest and unflappable, but as at Sarajevo last winter, he seems a bit weary. A typical snatch of McKay's sometimes repetitive prose: "This could be a historic night in the history of men's gymnastics." Among his potential successors, Jim Lampley comes across as better informed and shrewder than he was at Sarajevo, but the most natural and adroit performer is Kathleen Sullivan...
...reserves of forward-thruster fuel-close to the bare minimum needed to rescue an astronaut in free flight-Crippen ordered Nelson to return. Inside Challenger 's cockpit, Mission Specialist Terry Hart, 37, tried three times to snake the remote-controlled mechanical arm past the panels to snatch the satellite, but it remained tantalizingly out of reach. Said Crippen: "We came close that time, but no cigar...
...acid; even the teeth will go eventually. Ideas are something else, however. Much more difficult to get rid of them. Memories are peculiarly tenacious. Hitler may have discovered as much after the German High Command issued its Nacht und Nebel decree in the western occupied territories, enabling authorities to snatch citizens off the street and out of their homes under night and fog. "The prisoners will vanish without a trace," read the decree. They did not. They were traced in the minds of those who survived. Feelings are still harder to dispose of. The Argentine mothers were not patrolling...
...that had been presented to him earlier-Newton is part Indian-the singer milked the day's patriotic sentiment, kicking off with his own version of Neil Diamond's America, which ended with a shameless appeal to Martin Luther King's memory as Newton intoned a snatch of King's "I have a dream" speech. Mawkishness went on to new depths, even for a July 4th, with Newton's lead-in to Tie a Yellow Ribbon. "May there never be another American held hostage on foreign soil," he solemnly descanted. "And if you feel like...
...that rarity on television, a star who is a truly unsentimental cad. His lone redeeming feature is his unredeemability. To Buffalo Bill, all women are "bimbos" to be seduced, all men rivals to be traduced. If American viewers had not lost their innocence about unscrupulous TV characters, Bill would snatch it from them...