Word: latch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there are small tokens of enterprise in the townships. Residents are buying hulks of old cars to start their own jitney taxi service. Women are organizing neighborhood communal food-growing projects and day-care centers. People are buying transistors, tape decks and television sets, as if suddenly eager to latch onto a few small pleasures of life. There is champagne in the shebeens, and the chef in Soweto's one hotel now sleeps proudly on a water bed. True, no one can really escape the numbing boredom of being restricted at night to what is little better than...
Four minutes later, Kubacki gave Pagliaro and company another when he dropped the snap from center and watched Yale's Keith Bassi latch onto...
...Roman goddess of wealth and marriage, and it took plenty of the former before Armand Hammer, 78, could latch on to Rembrandt's Juno. The perdurable Occidental Petroleum Corp. chairman, who recently received a $3,000 fine for making illegal contributions to the 1972 Nixon campaign, bought the 17th century masterpiece for $3.25 million from Navy Secretary J. William Middendorf II. The most highly priced Rembrandt ever sold, the painting will eventually land in the Los Angeles County Museum. "The seller was asking $5 million," said the magnate philosophically, "so I think $3.25 million is a bargain...
...from the same picture. Proust was wordy anyway, but he might have meant that people looking at a photograph are also caught up in a kind of drama, and each person has a different idea of what will assist the action of his or her own life, and they latch onto the details in a picture accordingly...
...Crimson can latch onto a quarterback and a defensive line, it should be in contention for a second straight title...