Word: snatchings
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Even before the 9 p.m. curfew the streets are nearly deserted. Chen Houyang, 42, a Chinese businessman, says: "We are afraid to go out after 6 o'clock. I'm worried about my sons. The oldest is only 15, but the police will snatch him. All the police know how to do is eat money, money, money. It's never been this bad before," and he snaps his mouth like a dog nipping at the heels of a retreating intruder. People are shifting away from the Lon Nol regime. By the scores refugees are heading...
...universe (the stiffness of numbers, grammatical constructions) and the universe, which has nothing to do with the names we give or seize our leverage by. Let man take his reasoning place, expecting nothing, since man is not the invisible player but the player's pawn. Seize the whole board, snatch after godhood, and all turns useless waste. Such is my story...
...last 12 months, Princeton has dealt Radcliffe a lot of frustration in Eastern crew action. It all started at last year's Sprints when the women from Old Nassau thumped the first 'Cliffe eight to snatch away 1972 Sprint laurels...
...recent graduates-a healthy change for the magazine, and one that makes the issue a more than usually valid one for seeing what student writers are and aren't accomplishing. Dwight C. Barnaby's first chapter from a forthcoming novel (Durftenfaust) is too short to demonstrate more than a snatch of potential, but Alice Van Buren's "Twelve O'clock" (another first chapter) does more. It begins the memoirs of a self-pitying, broken-down, and impotent young Bohemian painter who's retreated so far from the world that he has absolutely no one to talk to-an unlikeable schlemihl...
...Lands Corp. Last week a spokesman for the venture capital partnership said: "They have enough money for several months. There is a squeeze, and orders are to control costs very tightly. There is an aggressive desire to form a partnership with a strong company, preferably a publishing company, and snatch this thing out of the jaws of failure...