Word: snatchings
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...bronze, amber, porcelain and terra cotta. One day Cabell admired one of Miss Glasgow's porcelain dogs so much that she gave it to him. Delighted, Author Cabell did not dare to put it down for fear that Miss Bennett, Novelist Glasgow's jealously vigilant secretary, would snatch it up and put it back in the collection. For guests like Novelist Cabell, Douglas Southall Freeman, Joseph Hergesheimer, Burton Rascoe, the Princess Troubetzkoy, hospitality at No. 1 is Southern and famous...
...controlled evenness through laminated glass skylights, which let in diffused sunlight by day, artificial sunlight by night. In the basement, a Dali dream of convoluted pipes and fans air-conditioned the whole building, from the soaring spaces of the rotunda to the tiled cafeteria where staff and public could snatch a sandwich between expeditions...
This was a full diplomatic retreat, for only through the prolonging of war in Europe can Japan hope to snatch more of East Asia. If there was any doubt that Spokesman Ishii was talking for his Government, it was dispelled by British Foreign Under Secretary Richard Austen Butler, who told the House of Commons that the mediation offer had been made official. This week Prime Minister Churchill received Japanese Ambassador Shigemitsu, turned the offer down...
...delay. In New England, where an abundance of lumber could be salvaged from hurricane-felled trees, camp constructions waited for lumber from the Pacific Coast (where lumbermen last week settled a ten-week strike, averting further delays). Contractors working for cost-plus-fixed-fees could afford to snatch labor from nearby rivals who had lump-sum contracts, thus delaying construction at other camps and highlighting the lack of a planned labor supply...
...there any way to hear the other side anywhere? Vag had caught a snatch of it when Russ Nixon spoke at Kirkland, and another fragment when Paul Sweezy had his turn at Dunster. ... But Vag wanted to hear more...