Word: grab
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Like a latter-day Fagin, east Londoner Ali Lwanga was always careful to keep a distance from his crimes. For a series of cashbox heists across the capital, Lwanga hired and coached children, some as young as 14, to rush the security guards, grab the box and make their getaway, while he watched from a little way off. His haul was $200,000 in just a few months, and Lwanga thought his only problem was laundering the cash. In fact, the police were already on to him; they just couldn't prove it. Until, that is, he was picked...
...think it’ll help the Classics department grab more new students since the generals tend to scare freshmen away when they hear about them,” said Andrew T. Rist ’09, who was president of the Classical Club last year...
...Japan is benefiting because of what it isn't. The world's renewed love affair with the nation has blossomed just as many nations are growing wary of the rising influence of Asia's other superpower: China. Unlike Japan, China has done little to mask its global natural-resources grab. As a result, Japan outranked China in a June survey of soft-power effectiveness in six countries by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Far from China eclipsing Japan, as many once thought, the Middle Kingdom's emergence has actually reawakened international admiration of its neighbor. "There's a strong...
...going into Quincy House to grab a quick lunch when a couple with a sandwich board stopped me at the front gate. “Are you going in to vote?” the woman asked me. I told her I wasn’t American as I rushed past. “What did he say?” her partner asked her. “He doesn’t want to vote,” the woman responded dismissively...
Trying to stop amid the stream of commuters at Tokyo's Shibuya station - through which 2.3 million people pass every day - can be a risk. Even stepping out of the flow to grab a paper at one of the station's many convenience stores can be a struggle. But as of Monday, there's a new reason for Tokyoites to take a detour from their well-worn paths: revered Japanese artist Taro Okamoto's Asu no Shinwa ("Myth of Tomorrow") now has a permanent home near the Keio Inokashira line in the Shibuya station...