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Word: grabs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When I was 20," he said, "I had a visionary experience in which I got fixated--an epiphany. I got hung up on the sensation of eternity--I tried to grab it. I got disillusioned with my youth. The disillusionment itself is the great vision...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Allen Ginsberg: Mindbreaths in the Night | 2/4/1978 | See Source »

...free features a dogfight between Crimson stud Malcolm Cooper, whose best mark of 21.30 is nationally ranked, and Princeton's Alan Fine, not too far behind at 21.501. The question here is who's going to grab the third place points...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Tiger Troops Here for Weekend Wars | 2/4/1978 | See Source »

Billie Jean King on the crowds at a tennis match: "They identify with the loser, which I don't like. It shows that the public has no self-respect. Sometimes I want to grab the mike and say, 'Heeey, no self-respect tonight, folks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 23, 1978 | 1/23/1978 | See Source »

...after three years, I will tell all. Grab yourself a National Enquirer and some kleenex, and read...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: I Was a Teenage Television Addict | 1/20/1978 | See Source »

...swaggers like Mussolini on his platform shoes, struts like Schwarzenegger in his black bikini briefs, and dances like Greco in his white suit. Most of all Travolta shows that he can act. Mr. Kotter's No. 1 sweathog gives a performance of such intensity that he may just grab an Academy Award nomination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Discomania | 12/19/1977 | See Source »

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