Word: grab
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Super Grip Ball. On streets, playgrounds and at the beach, players have added their own fancy moves, twisting into pretzel shapes to make behind-the-back catches, or getting a grip on the ball while doing a high-kick. Another trick: strapping a mitt on each hand to grab two balls at once. In short, the new adhesive playthings do what the Frisbee used to do, with less effort. Dropping the Velcro ball is also a lot harder: if it strikes any part of the sticky mitt, the orb stays...
...Lemme just take this call," says producer Lawrence Gordon, interrupting an interview to grab the phone. What follows is one of those edgy Hollywood power conversations, laced with sarcasm, posturing and barely controlled venom. "What do you mean you have nothing to do with it?" says Gordon. "No, I don't believe you . . . Suppose I bid $5 million, will you take credit for it?" Gordon hangs up the phone, then says with a smile, "So now we have to go to plan...
...have analyzed it, and I believe it's because they cannot see me as a peer. They have to establish a relationship that makes me inferior to them. The one they can immediately grab onto is a sexual relationship where the man is supposed to be dominant and the woman subservient...
...worse still. Upon hearing there was no list of radio-commercial winners, irate ad folk rushed the stage demanding an explanation. Unclaimed Clios were snapped up by anyone who could grab...
...three of these qualities were present last season on the women's basketball team, which compiled a 17-9 record and dominated the Ivy League, losing only twice in 14 contests, to grab the title...