Word: grab
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time the bus slips by the Back Bay's glitzy townhouses and stops near the Hynes Convention Center, there is only standing room left. Passengers grab the metal bars to steady themselves, and there is little room to move...
Going back to school used to be a simple matter. Buy some shoes, grab a few pencils and head on out the door. But your academic survival kit isn't complete nowadays if you're missing the vaccination against hepatitis B, a virus that can destroy the liver. Not only do more and more schools across the U.S. recommend the shots, but 22 states now require it for enrollment in kindergarten or first grade. Not to be outdone, the American College Health Association is launching a campaign this fall that features extreme-sports athletes like Olympic snowboarder Barrett Christy urging...
...felt awesome," Oslowski said. "To score the goal and have five or six guys come running over and grab you in celebration--it's a great feeling...
...thought about was, as it were, the surface of the canvas--the tension and originality with which the director slapped, slathered or slashed his colors on it. Like their painterly progenitors, many of these filmmakers are craftsmen of a rare order. They know how to arrest your eye and grab your attention, purely through the sophistication and intricacy of the technique by which they orchestrate chases, explosions or mass destruction of one sort or another...
...recession comes, economists say, the cause will be the inability of countries such as Brazil, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico and Venezuela to buy as many U.S. exports with their devalued currencies--and the hit on U.S. wages and corporate earnings as cheap imports from those countries grab a greater share of the U.S. consumer's wallet...