Word: nab
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Joyce hit the ball back to the pitcher who threw home on his knees trying to nab Thomas at the plate. The throw was wide and Thomas scored the Crimson's third run. Don Driscoll singled in Harvard's final two runs...
...Cliffe opened the game with a tight zone defense that forced the Elis 10 chance the outside shot. It turned out not to be too much chance, however, as Radcliffe could not nab the rebounds from the errant shots and the Yalies put the ball up for easy hoops. Yale took an early lead and did not relinquish it throughout the entire game...
...suspicious-looking bike comes in for repair or resale, the hotline will provide the shop owner with the proof necessary to nab the thief, and if the owner has his bill of sale, the bike will be returned," he said...
...fancy (Van Cleef's) jewelry store, is smitten by the antique dealer who runs the shop adjacent. He pursues her by as labyrinthine a design as the one he lays for the robbery. He's no wizard at mind-reading, however, and both plans backfire. The police nab him (for some mysterious reason he dawdles at the scene of the crime--goofy, considering all of his other precautions), and while he does win his way into Francoise's bed, it seems to happen more through a combination of accident and his own foolhardiness than his calculation. Then somehow their barely...
...white trailer in the middle of Times Square, a patrolman keeps his eyes on four screens for the first flicker of something going wrong. He can phone a squad car that will appear on the scene in as little as 30 seconds, or he can rush out himself to nab a thug, as Patrolman Jim Ray did in the case of Mrs. Kearns. Says Lieut. Berg: "It is as if we provide a cop at every door where the camera goes...