Word: grabs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...magnetic figures of the Hearst saga ever come to life: Randolph; who was spurred into trying to improve the San Francisco Examiner when critics convinced him of its awfulness and who then faded away amid the flames and communiques of the Patty kidnapping; Bill, trying time after time to grab hold of a paper or to understand how his father had betrayed him; young Will, trying to break out of the circle by joining Jann Wenner in a new magazine called Outside, and discovering Wenner as disappointing a publisher as assorted Hearsts had been. Despite a faithful recording...
With the CBS campaign theme song booming over the loud speakers. I watched Cronkite perform: he would grab his briefing book and glasses every time the camera cut away from him and then returned to the air with that everything's-completely-under-control composure of his. In the middle of all the confusion stood the director, shouting out what camera was next and how many seconds until the end of a shot...
...Rather will be sitting at Cronkite's old desk next week, but restlessly. He doesn't like the word anchorman, and sees himself more as "a lead correspondent. I want to grab a pencil and get out of the office. I do not intend to be an inside man." But until Rather has shown that he can hold on to Cronkite's audience, CBS wants him at that familiar desk...
...Crimson, every year you are taken over by a bunch of well-meaning ambitious types who think they are going to set you on fire and make your pages glow and glitter and sparkle and grab readers by the eyeballs and pull them into your embrace until they moan and beg for more. Every year you will be remade in their image, and you give some and take some, but keep your basic shape until another like-minded team starts rubbing its palms in anticipation...
...husband and three children, the "53rd hostage" was saving most of her experiences for a book she plans to write. Dwyer did say that she had been duped into and subsequently arrested for agreeing to participate in a "plan" to free the hostages. "I think they wanted to grab somebody after [the rescue attempt in] Tabas," she explained. "I was a very convenient, naive person to grab." Dwyer was not under "heavy pressure" to confess. Said she: "I think they just wanted to say to their people they'd finally caught...