Word: grabbed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fired up by the Big Green's tallies, the Crimson stickwomen whipped off three sharp goals to bounce back and grab the lead. Center Julie Cornman led off the barrage with a high shot into the upper right corner of the cage...
Mike Stenhouse, Harvard's varsity right-fielder, said yesterday, "I'm sure the team will be willing to try the new gum. I chew a lot when I get tense and generally grab whatever gum is around...
...courses at a nearby college. Her mother is a maid, and she has six siblings, including a brother at Yale. Her essay radiates energy and will. She gets an A 83-admitted, unless Rogers has second thoughts at "minority review": "If we take her, I'm going to grab that grade book a year from now and see how she's doing...
...offer to resign. After some deliberation, Khomeini refused the resignation and pledged greater support for the government. But if that promise was not kept and Bazargan were to quit, authority in Iran would apparently rest solely with the Komiteh, the mullahs and other fervent Shi'ites whose grab for power has literally pulled the Persian rug out from under Bazargan's regime...
There's nothing particularly new in saying that "normal" middle class life throttles vital emotions, but Tremblay overlays a complex weave of thematic concerns to avoid staleness. It isn't enough that one sister sleeps with Serge, all the others want to as well. They grab for him physically and spiritually hoping that if only he will agree to live with them they will be saved from their miserable lives. The two old aunts, who must sleep in the same bed even though they hate each other, add their pleas to the chorus. Jealousy, lust, hatred, infidelity, frustration--all swirl...