Word: grab
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...your backyard. Nor would this be the first time that hopes of bin Laden's imminent capture have risen, only to lead to disappointment. So no one, either in Washington or Afghanistan, is getting too giddy. Tracking bin Laden, the intelligence official says, is "kind of like trying to grab Jell-O before it solidifies...
Though she played tentatively during her time on the floor, a quick foul in the second sent her to the bench with four. With 6:48 remaining and less than a minute after re-entering, she shoved off Peljto in an attempt to grab a loose ball for her fifth and final infraction after playing only 19 minutes, tallying just nine points...
Unfortunately for Andrew-Jaja, over the last few years he has been plagued with injuries that prevented him from reaching his goal of seven feet. But now, feeling healthy and jumping his best ever, Andrew-Jaja and sophomore Cliff Emanuel will look to grab the top two spots in their event at Heptagonals, earning a number of important points for the Crimson...
...Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King a dead cert for Best Picture? Already the sixth all-time worldwide top-grossing film, the finale to Peter Jackson's hobbit-forming trilogy has also received plenty of critics' laurels. But to grab the big statuette, LOTR: ROTK will need to overturn a serious Academy prejudice: no flat-out fantasy film has ever nabbed the top Oscar...
...Human Mind were forced to close the doors on the overflow crowd so that those lucky—or early—enough to grab seats could hear Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker’s first lecture...