Word: nab
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Essick wanted to make sure that Harvard would take both first and second in the 1000, but when it became obvious that the Crimson's other two entries could nab the top two places, Essick signaled Canales to drop off the pace...
...expected, Loughran took the race after a fast start. Maass went out more slowly, hoping to speed up at the end and nab second. Canales, who shaved for the meet, chose a pace in between...
John Craigand Peter Tetlow came in 1-2 in the 200 fly while Haywood and Ted Fullerton finished firstand second in the 200 breast. Co-captain Fullerton had been in the water barely two weeks since a bout with mononucleosis but swam well enough to nab second...
Highly-touted Eli star Gary Fencik only caught one pass all day--a twelve-yard nab in the waning moments of the game...
...horses. As an artillery captain following the Armistice of World War I, he persuaded seven fellow officers to help him try to kidnap the German Kaiser Wilhelm and deliver him as a Christmas present to President Woodrow Wilson. The scheme eventually failed, but the fact that MacPhail managed to nab one of the Kaiser's monogrammed ashtrays testified to how close the plotters had come to pulling...