Word: grab
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...smash and grab" is a break-in in which the thief breaks a window and then quickly takes the valuables lying about, Bruce said...
...exactly as they planned it. Wait out the regular season, grab a play-off spot and then, and only then would it unleash its full potential on the ECAC league...
...fish, steal a little marijuana from an illicit plantation and work on their tans. Eventually, perhaps because everyone has read Lord of the Flies, things fall apart nastily. But even this calamity, which involves blood and dead people (the pot growers lose patience), does not touch the survivors. They grab sandals and rucksacks and move on. Richard reports all this a year later from London, where he is tethered to an unspecified job. His tone is one of mild regret, which seems to be the author's view as well, though that's hard to say. If Garland is aware...
...notch at least a tie this coming weekend in its series against Dartmouth and Vermont. The possibility is still great that the Crimson could find itself on its way to Potsdam. That scenario could only come to life if Harvard loses both games this weekend, and if the Saints grab three points total against Cornell and Colgate. In sum, a Harvard win would solidify home ice for the preliminary round regardless of what St. Lawrence does this weekend...
...into Diller's long-range goals, which for big thinkers like him tend to amount to total world domination? Two years after his painful failures to merge QVC first with Paramount and then with CBS, Diller operates from a power base called Silver King Communications. It's a grab bag of second-tier media properties that includes the nation's sixth largest group of TV stations; the Home Shopping Network (HSN); the dormant production studio Savoy Pictures; and the Internet Shopping Network, a Website for computer purchases. He isn't discussing his future plans, but the Web is surely central...