Word: grabs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Right reads like a hundred direct mail letters stacked an inch high and stuffed with selfrighteous indignation and paranoia. Its grab-bag stocks every conservative phrase since Great Britain wallowed in socialism, FDR sold Eastern Europe up the Volga, and the federal government destroyed the American family. In it we learn; "Separation of church and state...does not mean separation of God and government"; "Most of the liberal leaders are dead, retired, or just too tired to compete in the demanding decade before us"; and "History shows that military strength is the best way to prevent war with an aggressor...
McCloskey has remained virtually untouched in all the fly events this fall, and yesterday was no exception. Keeping her head low and not breathing at the end of her races, McCloskey held off strong challenges from Boston College's Kris Engellener to grab both the 50- and 100-yard butterfly events with times...
...painful too. Even on the verge of the actual release, noted Dorothea Morefield of San Diego, whose husband is consul general of the captive U.S. embassy: "Everybody's walking around with their fingers crossed." Said Susan Cooke of Memphis about her hostage son Donald: "I just want to grab him and hang on for dear life...
...Schell felt as if he were part of an experiment in "barbarian management." There were no casual chats, no exchanges of mailing addresses and certainly no offers of female companionship. "In the back streets of China's less cosmopolitan cities," he recalls, "I would sometimes see mothers protectively grab their children as I passed...
...blond hair is always unruly. Instead of Clark's patrician, High Church accent, Hughes speaks in a matey, sometimes too hearty Australian that lapses easily-and quite appropriately-into slang. Talking about Chicago's pioneering building developers, for instance, he says that their policy was to "grab the block, screw the neighbors...