Word: grab
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Typical Response from Harvard Guy: [Tries to muster up the courage to say something to her, but instead decides to run to Loker to grab a bag lunch before it closes...
...fashioned, but it seems that at Harvard, lots of women are looking to be chased. The catch: No one is willing to do the chasing. Everyone wonders why there are so few dating couples here at Harvard--perhaps someone needs to step up and grab the reins...
...Crimson came away the winner in the highly contentious first game. With Harvard trailing to Queens 11-9, Lewis subbed in to score four consecutive points off his serve to grab a 13-11 lead for Harvard...
Monica's Story is a collection of refrigerator-magnet cliches strung together over 280 pages, until you want to scream if she says, "I love the little boy in him," one more time. Grab a few of her dippy observations at random--"I cried myself to sleep," "I saw him as a man, not as the President," "He promised me he would [fill in the blank]"--add bathos, and you have a typical paragraph. Repeat three times, and you have a page. Spritz with psychobabble and enough self-improvement rhetoric to fuel a Weight Watchers convention, and you have...
...these don't grab you, create your own adventure. The important thing is to capture the excitement of connecting literary landscapes with real-life places--and to nourish your family's love of reading. And if your kids insist on stopping at an amusement park on the way, one more water slide probably won't kill...