Word: snagging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Keener came home with more than salutes; he also had $2,000,000 worth of contracts in his pocket. This week, starting a second jaunt, Sam Keener was looking forward to more salutes during his stopovers in the world's principal cities. Out of it, Keener hopes to snag additional millions in new business...
...only snag in the initial Communist timetable (a 24-hour delay) was caused by two British ships caught in the Communist crossing east of Nanking (see below...
...that the baby was being given daily airings in the palace grounds. So photographers reconnoitered the streets around "Buck House," looking for a high point from which to shoot over the iron fence and bushes into the grounds. Along Grosvenor Place, which overlooks the grounds, they ran into a snag: leases on the houses there, owned by the Duke of Westminster, prohibit tenants from creating any nuisance for their royal neighbors, so tenants were timid about cameramen. But a few lensmen talked their way to the rooftops and began a long vigil that lasted through eight rainy, cold days...
Student grifters have thrown a snag into Bill Bingham's new plan to allot Stadium seats by class standing. As a result, some Seniors will have to watch the Columbia game from the 10-yard line...
...already lost their shirts. This week, in Chicago, union leaders went in to surrender to Armour and Co. officials. They were ready to accept the 9?-an-hour increase the companies had originally offered (the union at first demanded 29?, later was willing to take 12?). There was a snag to final agreement: the company now demanded the right to fire strikers who had taken part in the violence. Until that was settled, the strike would drag...