Word: grab
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Will the Red Sox win the World Series this year for the first time since they traded Babe Ruth? No one can say for sure. But if any baseball fans want to go down to Fenway, grab a hot dog and find out in person, they need not look far for company...
Three decades ago, I was one of the Jessy-friends. She was 11 when I first met her at her parents' home in Williamstown, Mass. Hunched over a cardboard carton filled with tiny squares of paper, she would grab handfuls of paper bits and let them sift down through her fingers--a repetitive activity that could absorb her for half an hour at a stretch...
...younger members of the party recognize this is a crisis," says Shiozaki, a member of the lower house of parliament. "I think some of the old ones even understand that now." Shiozaki and a gang of younger Liberal Democratic pols are attempting a coup, trying to grab control of the party. This kind of thing is breaking out all over, even at MITI. After 17 years at the ministry, Yoshiaki Murakami, 41, quit in 1999 to start an investment fund. His plan: to shake up boardrooms by challenging the cross-shareholding system that protects troubled banks and companies. He attempted...
...hair-raising string of crises in the late 1990s--culminating in a collision with an unmanned cargo ship in 1997--but there were other, less publicized near misses. Cosmonaut Alexander Serebrov almost became a satellite himself when his safety tether came loose during a spacewalk. Luckily, he managed to grab hold of the station. In 1994, Mir lost its orientation, causing most of its onboard systems to sputter out, including the fans that keep oxygen circulating. To stay alive, the cosmonauts had to wave their hands in front of their faces to gather in breathable air and flap away carbon...
...Unconquered." Gary Cooper doing the old over-the-falls-in-a-canoe-but-grab-the-branch-halfway-down routine. Fresh as a daisy...