Word: snatchings
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...reveals, he wrote a zillion rag tunes ("That Mysterious Rag," "Ragtime Violin!", "Ragtime Mockingbird," "Ragtime Jockey Man," "Ragtime Soldier Man," "That International Rag") before and after "Alexander." He based whole songs on other people's airs ("That Mesmerizing Mendelsohn Tune," from Mendelsohn's "Spring Song"). He'd drop a snatch of a public-domain song in one of his (the bugle call and "Swanee River" in "Alexander's Ragtime Band"; "There's No Place Like Home" and "Farmer in the Dell" in "He Ain't Got Rhythm...
...Snatch the President from his spinners, kill the TelePrompTer, unleash the Everyman within--and George W. Bush knows how to buck up a country. Last week, after getting intelligence that set off a second high alert, Bush ignored the advice of his Secret Service and traveled to Yankee Stadium for the first home game of the World Series. Alone on the pitcher's mound, not an agent in sight, with thousands rooting for him, he took his own sweet time and delivered a clean strike...
...They merely failed to win two of them. That?s because the Yanks pulled a couple of miracles out of their pockets to leave New York on a three-game win streak. On Wednesday and Thursday in the Bronx they had conjured pinstripe sorcery on successive, sensational evenings to snatch extra inning victories in games that the Diamondbacks were within an out of claiming. On Wednesday, Tino Martinez hit a two-run homer in the 9th with two out to tie it, and Derek Jeter won it in the 10th with as cheap a homer...
...rock band playing on a stage with flashing neon colors, as the group thrashs away on guitars and keyboards. The boyish lead singer dances and sings spasmodically; it could be any cutting edge, industry-created rock band. But as the video ends, roadies or studio workers (?) come and snatch the instruments away from these young rockers, unplug the amplifiers and monitors, and attempt to carry the lead singer off, causing pandemonium on the stage. And the coup is: This handsome rock group is not New Order. Because the irony of the video is undetectable to a younger market unaware...
...this cave business as we go along," says a former special-forces commando. In much the same way, they will figure out what to do if they catch up with bin Laden or another al-Qaeda leader. In that event, the special forces would have to choose between a "snatch-and-grab" mission--tossing their target into a helicopter and getting out fast--or a "blow-and-go," in which case the captive would be killed. Sources tell TIME that the Pentagon and State Department had made plans last week to fly FBI agents to a Navy warship...