Word: grab
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...happens once in a while," the junior from New Brunswick, Canada said. "It's not a big deal. You just reach out and grab the stick closest to you. The game is all breaks...
...them are sure that the IDF and the IAF could make short work of the coward who attacks innocents in their homes. "That son of a bitch," one old woman calls him. Anger and indignation, not fear, is the dominant emotion here. In classic Mideastern fashion, people grab me by the shirt lapels as they make their points. Many compare Saddam to Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. Like Eichmann, whom the Israelis captured, tried and executed in the '60s, so too would Saddam be punished for attacking innocent Jews, they...
...said my friend, wanting to grab the other shoe before it dropped. "How many of my people do I have to let go?" He could see this was going to be a very lousy day. "You don't understand," said the more senior partner. "We're letting you go." Oops...
...psychologists are poised to grab a share of perhaps the biggest professional prize: prescribing drugs. This fall a pair of psychologists at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington began selecting and dispensing medications to a handful of patients in an experiment to see if novice prescribers can do the job safely and effectively. The test marks the first time in the field of mental health that non-M.D.s have been permitted to prescribe medication. Last week the American Psychological Association showed its confidence that the experiment will be a success by appointing a study group to explore...
...decades, chemists have known of themolecule's uncanny ability to grab onto chargedoxygen ions nearby. But only in the past decade orso have clinicians found a medical use for suchinformation...