Word: snatch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...abused and neglected children. Never once did he mention what the fight was all about: control of the machine. Nineteen committeemen rose to endorse him. The most impassioned was Ed Kelly who, as president of the Chicago Park District, controls 3,000 jobs that Byrne has been trying to snatch away. "The Daley name is still magic," cried Kelly. "There are many lOUs in this room, lOUs that we owe to Richard Daley...
Playing well enough to make everyone forget about Betsy Richmond (last year's Boston champ) for a little while. Bougas lost only four games in her two matches to snatch the crown. She thumped B. U.'s Barbara O'Halloran, 6-1, 6-2, in the finals with the aid of a strong service return and several unforced errors by her opponent...
Class of '54 members, some wearing "veritas" ties, stood on the steps humming their way through "10,000 Men of Harvard," remembering a snatch of the lyrics now and then. Children, who are separated by age into the Green, Blue, Orange, Red and "Youngest" groups, milled around too, waiting for the beginnings of the program of activities which will separate them from their parents for much of the week...
Everitt's plan was to seize McLemore before the Indians realized there was no money. "We were going to snatch him, throw him in the car and leave with him," Everitt says. McLemore, however, apparently made a break for safety earlier than planned, could not find Everitt's car, and jumped instead into an army Jeep. The soldiers, who had been waiting to arrest him, promptly...
Well, it didn't happen. In a remarkable comeback, the lights roared past the Quakers to snatch a 5.4-second victory and the first leg of what was to end up as an undefeated season...