Word: grab
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gangs of five or more, make their way to the city's main black market. In carefully choreographed routines they loot the stalls. Two boys approach a seller from the right, two from the left, and they begin to argue. While the seller is distracted, a fifth boy grabs a jar of jam or milk. Sometimes, when the hunger is bad, the boys will simply run up to a hawker, grab a handful of food and run. And sometimes they are caught. "The cops know we're only trying to survive, and they let us go," says Alen Berglerovic...
...scrutinize its next choices more? If the press could find Stephen Breyer's "Zoe Baird Problem" and Lani Guinier's inflammatory writings within a week of the release of their names, why couldn't Clinton & Co.? The public's disillusionment with the president could come from his snatch-and-grab appointments as much as his programs...
This is roller hockey, L.A. style. You put on rollerblades, you grab your hockey stick and you take to the rink...
Until Hollywood calls again, Isaak, who will tour with his band in the U.S. and Europe this summer, is raring to return to his first and deepest love. "I want to sing every day," he says. "I've had girlfriends who said, 'Every time you're upset, you grab your guitar.' " And if you can believe him, he grabs it a lot. "Being happy or unhappy has got very little to do with how much stuff you have or how well your career is going," he explains. "But I haven't given up hope. I'm still trying...
Guatemalan President's power grab ends in exile