Word: grabs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard men's tennis team had hoped to at least split singles with Clemson, yesterday at the Beren Tennis Center Instead, the netmen dropped four out of six singles matches, only to come back and sweep the doubles and grab a 5-4 upset of the ninth ranked Tigers...
...grab yourself a hot dog and a place in the shade to watch a good ol' game of America's favorite past time. These won't exactly be baseball players and they won't exactly be throwing sliders and curves; instead they'll be "bowling." What you'll have chanced upon is the annual Lowell-South House cricket match...
Hollis Stacy birdied five of the final nine holes Thursday to grab a first-found 5-underpar lead in the $175,000 OPO International women's golf tournament...
This is not to say that Gary Hart does not have some solid, serious ideas buried in his grab-bag of slogans. His tacit acknowledgement that competition in the most effective way to direct resources generous interesting proposals aimed not to subsets the month but to patch up its failures. His blueprint for "Revolving Industrial Vitality" makes a lot of sense--to compile better information for investors, and to alter financial regulations to free up investment finds for businesses, especially small ones, would do much to encourage increased production. His plans for workers, providing elaborate government training and matching programs...
...story of the artist. Thomas presents the irritating structure and forms of writing itself--bursts of creativity, exhaustion, editors, censorship; each of his storytellers reveals one side of the complete artist, and their greed and selfishness are an essential part of any artist or indeed any person. These poets grab at life, they are greedy to create, to live. They, like all people, deny death by creating--through sex, through writing, through life itself...