Word: snagging
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Even the masterpieces are constantly swamped by competitors with pretentious texts or gaudy illustrations aimed to snag an adult's wallet, not a child's mind. For success breeds venality, and many a pub lisher acts on the principle that the small change in piggy banks is just as negotiable as the currency in vaults. That money has recently made publishers more willing to experiment with packaging than with fresh content. Books that float in the tub, or smell of perfume when they are scratched, or assume the shapes of trains, or pop up with paper cutouts...
...infrequent occasions when they got a chance, Crimson goalies Pete Walsh and Ben Erulcar came up with some big saves to preserve the shutout. Early in the game, Walsh pushed himself into a crowd of players in front of the goal to snag a loose ball and squelch the threat. Erulcar duplicated the trick in the closing minutes...
Columbia junior Wally Collins used the home course advantage to snag top honors in the race, finishing in 25:20. Harvard sophomore Eric Schuler followed him four seconds later for the number two spot...
...emergency, as one might guess, is a romance between the Air Force pilot turned taxi driver, played by the ingenuous Robert Hays, and the stewardess who takes over the co-pilot's chair from Kareem Abdul-Jabar. Julie Hagarty plays the sallow, teary type--she's sure to snag a nighttime sitcom role from this appearance...
...cost of gold has skyrocketed too, but Tiffany, the New York jeweler commissioned to design and strike medals for the Games, agreed to supply them at 1978 prices. The designers hit a snag, however, when they submitted their sketches: the Lake Placid Organizing Committee responded with a veto. The reason: the medals' obverse side showed the rolling Adirondack Mountains, but not the peak where one of the committee members owned a farm. The medals were redesigned and the mountains were shifted. The medal winners of 1980 will always have a view of one committeeman's homesite...