Word: grabbed
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...nearest thing to an honest man to come to light in a long while, and America had better grab him before he and we become extinct...
...Long street in the seamy port of Qui Nhon, South Viet Nam's third-biggest city, two troopers from the U.S. 173rd Airborne Brigade halted their three-quarter-ton truck. Whether they stopped to shift their load, as they said, or to grab a beer or a whore, is beside the point. Within minutes, one of a legion of larcenous Vietnamese urchins surrounding the truck had made off with a fire extinguisher...
...summed it up: "It ain't the rules; it's the man. Same as back in the world. A black man is the only one they grab for spitting on the streets. Over here if a bunch of brothers get together to blow some grass, right away the officers get uptight; in the next barracks over, white guys are doing the same thing, but nobody bothers them. The regs [Army Regulations] say you can grow your hair this long, but the first sergeant says he don't care what the regs say, because...
...best game to date, scoring 15 points and getting five assists. He and Lewis, who tallied 20 points mainly on tip-ins, helped the team inch ahead by 13 midway through the second half, and with a boost from sophomore forward Eric Fox, who came off the bench to grab seven rebounds in 11 minutes. Harvard stretched its advantage...
LACKING an elemental confidence in their nation's flimsy architectural foundations, Americans continue to construct buildings which will conform to their need for a tradition -buildings which, however, bear no relation to the functional sensibility required today. These buildings, consequently, fail to grab the imagination or heart of contemporary America; they remain unintegrated and distant from the world they seek to underpin...