Word: grabbings
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...Hanks deserves our admiration, but is he really our "chronicler in chief" [March 15]? I've been reading World War II history for more than 50 years, and when I read that Hanks thinks the writing of academic historians is "often too dull to grab regular people by the lapel," I flashed on the works of Rick Atkinson, Richard Bessel, Martin Gilbert, Richard Overy and a hundred other academic historians who have made the war real, capturing both its grand scale and its smallest details...
Koernke unequivocally denies any involvement in the Oklahoma blast, but he has capitalized on the atrocity to rally his followers around the idea of government complicity in the explosion. On his shortwave radio broadcast the day of the bombing, he exhorted true believers in Oklahoma to grab their video cameras and shoot footage of the site. "Document what agencies were coming in and out. As a matter of fact, [my wife] Nancy and the kids, watching the initial footage of this, saw what appeared to be United Nations observers' badges." The next day, patriot computer bulletin-board systems were rife...
Harvard’s chances for victory seemed even more realistic when Franklin hit a screaming line drive to left, but Tedesco quickly deflated the Crimson’s aspirations. The Sacred Heart senior snatched the ball out of the air with a leaping grab and unleashed a strike to home plate, gunning down sophomore right fielder Brent Suter, who had tagged from third...
Without warning, the man inside the car grabbed Officer Ellison’s left arm, while simultaneously reaching under a pile of clothes to grab a sharpened screwdriver...
...They were saying that if you have the talents God gave you, you should use them,” Brent explains. “You should grab the bull by the horns and take risks. Moments like that really helped me along...