Word: grab
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...acting debut, Nable plays "Grub" Henderson, captain of the Newtown Jets. Hard to like but essentially decent, Grub's an abrasive civilian and a violent player, the type who shows a teammate how to grab a rival and deliver "20 straight rights" to his head. Grub isn't coping with a changing game and looming retirement, and his crumbling sense of identity draws him into increasingly caustic clashes with deceitful club CEO "Colgate" Perry (John Jarratt) and Grub's stoical wife Emma, played superbly by Raelee Hill...
...about six rows behind me. And then ... it bounced. It hit a fan's hands, and then hit the pavement, which made it about eye level with me. I immediately, without even thinking, dove head first into the pile. You see something, and you instinctively know just to grab it. So I got my hands on it, and I immediately covered the surface of the ball with my hands, and held onto it. And just waited for the pain...
...Elizabeth Edwards writes in a poignant new chapter of her book Saving Graces. "But the exercise of sanding away the edges has always been a waste of time." Wouldn't it be nice if that were true? Sadly, sanding away the edges remains a political necessity because opponents will grab at anything to pull a candidate off course. Even a diagnosis of cancer. The Edwardses know that some people were put off by their decision to continue the campaign despite her cancer's recurrence, that he is accused of being power-hungry and she of playing the victim card. Elizabeth...
...popular City Council member Oliver Thomas, has elicited charges that white prosecutors are motivated by race; even the somewhat staid Louisiana Weekly, an 80-year-old newspaper targeted to African-American readers, recently ran an op-ed piece claiming the U.S. Attorney's Office was abetting a white power grab...
...young hipsters all came here and then they just grew up and starting having babies," says Jana von Oheimb-Rosta, a slim 34-year-old with jet black hair, as she lurches to grab her four-year-old before he bolts. She came to Prenzlauer Berg as a teenager before the Wall fell, and lived in an occupied house. "Now, the entire yuppie world is moving in here," she says...