Word: snatchings
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...platoons of snaky-looking loungers, the agents of "a foreign power," lie in wait. Alfred Hitchcock might have zipped his man through them all as niftily as a gamma ray through a cream puff, but Hero McCrea has no such luck. The Yard men catch him, the loungers snatch his spy. The poor colonel is lucky to get a kiss from his wife...
...snatch the ball-point-pen leadership from Frawley Chemical & Engineering's Paper-Mate, Atlanta's Scripto, Inc. is bringing out a new, lighter and better-balanced model for $1. Though competition is still fierce, ball-point penmakers have recovered from their recent slump. Last year's ball-point sales: 45 million, v. a mere 28 million conventional fountain pens...
Lenin once dismissed Molotov as "Russia's best filing clerk." A keener assessment appears in a snatch of dialogue from an early session of the comrades...
...best character in The Happy Time is the lovable dissolute, Uncle Louie, played by Curt Klasner. Louie is a lazy, shaggy fat man who drinks wine out of a water cooler. He is hilarious as the stooge in Desmond's description of how to snatch a chorus girl's garter. Perpetually half-drunk, his arm wrapped affectionately around his water cooler, Uncle Louie steals every scene he stumbles into...
...novel message over the new medium: an hour-long program, called "Crusade in America." From Eisenhower and Nixon seated together informally in Boston, it flashed across the country, reaching party voices as distant as California's Governor Earl Warren, picking up issues of the campaign (e.g., a cinema snatch of Theron Lamar Caudle, of mink coat fame, testifying before congressional investigators), returning to Ike at midnight for a last brief appeal...