Word: grabbed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crew-gushed. They described an undulating plain pocked by craters and filled with large boulders that looked gleaming white in the early-morning sun. "Damn, I can't wait to get outside," said Conrad. "Those rocks have been waiting 41 billion years for us to come and grab them...
...Demands. O'Malley was perhaps the mildest critic the bishops heard all week. Outside the closed-door sessions, leaders of ten dissident Catholic organizations, both clerical and lay, joined together in a loose coalition to present the bishops with a "People's Agenda," a grab bag of 41 wildly varied demands for church and social reform. Among them: that the church allot a regular tithe to blacks; back immediate withdrawal from Viet Nam; set up a draft-counseling program; develop family-planning programs; re-examine Catholic teaching on divorce; phase out parochial schools; endorse optional celibacy and female...
...slut plots revenge on Farmer Futz after he invites Amanda along on a tryst. She persuades a local homicidal maniac to claim that he killed a village girl only after seeing Futz and Amanda in the throes of passion. That's grounds right there for the sheriff to grab Futz and toss him into jail, where the indignant citizenry will eventually seize him and ruthlessly murder...
...Columbia's surprising 2-1 win over Penn moved the Lions into a tie for second place in the Ivy standings. After trailing the Quakers, 1-?, Columbia scored ??vice in the third period to clinch the victory. The Lions feat Brown this weekend with a chance to grab sole possession of the runner-up spot...
...three are reported to have decided a week ago not to campaign for a one, two, three vote from the blacks. Whether the severely split black neighborhoods will do this without such prodding seems doubtful. Moreover, Coates or Solomons, in order to win, must either grab one of the four traditional CCA seats (an unlikely proposition considering the competition) or win as a fifth CCA revolution in City politics. So, at the moment, it is likely that Cambridge's blacks will fall just short of re-gaining representation on the council...