Word: latch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Having trouble? You should be. The last is probably the closest to the right answer, although none suits-a situation of which the test subject is well aware. "My image is very vague," Parker admits. "That makes it difficult for audiences to fully latch onto me and critics to know where to put me. But if you're still struggling, I've got a hook for you: call me 'atomic R & B or plutonium...
...student voice and progress in any issue area, would be making a very grave mistake to let it slip away. The mechanism is associated with the "Little Eleven" (meaning, the Ivy League Schools, Stanford and the University of Chicago) Intercollege Conference; the conference is something which we should all latch onto...
...Picking their way among trails of plastic cedar, they listen as a sleepy-eyed Youngblood explains the procedure: the announcer will call out each girl's name; holding a bouquet of white roses, she will then ascend the platform, curtsey to the audience, then march down the hall and latch back onto her father's arm. They run through it once, simulating the rose bouquets with short ropes of the plastic cedar...
...Navy, ever more sophisticated, has developed something called the DSRV, capable of glug-glugging down to distressed subs, latching onto their escape hatches and lifting sailors to the surface. This time, though, the U.S.S. Neptune is lying in a deep ocean trench, subject to slides of rock and silt from farther up this underwater canyon. These slides 1) cover up the escape hatch and 2) keep shoving Neptune over to an angle where the DSRV can't latch onto that hatch. The screen writers must resort to their imaginations, concocting an experimental two-man sub that can clear...
...still look forward to tangling with ninth-ranked Holy Cross, spearheaded by soph Ronnie Perry. Perry was the most heavily recruited schoolboy from the Boston area three years ago along with Harvard transfer Joe Beaulieu. Coach George Blaney's Crusaders will face their first real test when they latch up with Iona College in their fourth game of the season...