Word: grab
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...fight, but he also wasn't scared of a friend," says conservative Republican Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas. After heated debates with John McCain on the Senate floor, Wellstone, a former college wrestler who still holds the Capitol Police gym record for pushups and pull-ups, would grab McCain in the cloakroom in a mock wrestling hold. And when one of his amendments was inevitably defeated by a lopsided vote, Wellstone would walk over to the opposing Senator who had defeated him, slap him on the back and joke, "You were lucky this time." He remained the ideological conscience...
...announced that she had come to decorate his room. After 45 minutes of awkward room-decoration banter, Friedkin made his move. “After she moved my floor lamp across the room I told her there was one other long pole in the room that she needed to grab,” he remembers, “so she punched me in the kidney and left.” Ruminated a chagrined Friedkin: “I guess it’s OK. I mean, I only have to see her for, hmmm, four hours a week in tutorial...
...word to the wise: grab a copy of their self-released album while you can. You’ll kick yourself when you hear them on the radio a couple of years from...
After two well-run plays and two well-thrown balls, the Crimson faced 4th-and-10. With no other option, the Crimson went for it deep in its own territory and converted on a leaping grab by Byrnes underneath when Morris attracted double-coverage deep...
...well, you would be creating something new for Europe and building public awareness of this competition." It would also potentially give other European syndicates, sponsors and broadcasters a better tilt at the spoils of victory. Some teams, mind you, may already have tilted a tad too far to grab those spoils. Even before racing started, Seattle's OneWorld syndicate was found in possession of three other teams' design secrets. In August OneWorld told the America's Cup Arbitration Panel the designs were stolen by a former employee. Unconvinced, the panel docked OneWorld a competition point. Still, dueling on the high...