Word: grabs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first time it was merely amusing. Cornell led 3-0 in one of the least elegant games of football you'll ever see, and the dog's grab for the orange foam gave the fans one of their few opportunities to cheer an aggressive offensive play. The cheers quickly turned to jeers as a uniformed security officer pursued our hero and retrieved the marker...
Stunned, angered and confused at first by Continental's unexpected shutdown, passengers by last week soon lined up ten deep at its ticket counters to grab "introductory" fares of $49 to fly anywhere nonstop on the airline's domestic system. At Terminal C of Houston's Intercontinental Airport, Bonnie Hash, 22, stood at the end of a line of 53 people, waiting to swap the return portion of a $425 round-trip ticket to Seattle for a $49 one. "It's inconvenient," said she, "but it's worth the wait." It is still not sure...
Moderate Zionists wanted to make a settlement which would let them go back to the job of building Israel, free of Arab attacks. Already, however, some extremists have been advising the Jews to grab what they could. Last week, Irgun Commander Menachim Beigin said that he would stop underground activities in Israel, but he warned that his soldiers would fight for "all" of Palestine, including Transjordan, "until the Jewish flag will fly over the Tower of David in Jerusalem and Jewish peasants will work in the fields of Gilead [in Transjordan]." He warned the Israelite government not to make "further...
...Jackson becomes the candidate the media is portraying, he will fail to grab the real opportunity for Blacks in 1984. This is not the time for Blacks to run their own candidate--the days are past when "Black Power" was the only way. What will help the mass of poor Blacks more is a movement of all the poor combined with the political left, which Blacks will dominate--through sheer numbers--but not control. Radicals such as Francis Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward predict such a realignment of politics among class lines if only the left follows...
...Watson is the reduction from three to two of the number of divers countries can send in each event a move forced by smaller countries tired of seeing sweeps by the U.S. and other dominant teams. Another problem is Greg Louganis, the world's premier diver, who will surely grab an Olympic berth in any event lie enters...