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Word: nabbed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Baker, who is new to hard-ball squash this year, couldn't quite assimilate to Musto's vicious mix of three-walls. Recovering from a flu, Baker could not rely on endurance to nab a win. He was leading, 2-0, when Musto's hard-ball experience started to take its toll on Baker. Musto won the next three games...

Author: By Rebecca D. Knowles, | Title: Wednesday Part Two: Elis Ace Racquetmen for Title | 2/27/1990 | See Source »

...Crimson (6-4 Ivy) led Penn (5-6), 43-32 at halftime. But the Quakers refused to quit, outscoring Harvard by 14 points in the second half to nab the visitors...

Author: By Andy Fine, | Title: W. Cagers Lose, 71-68, On Verge Of Elimination | 2/24/1990 | See Source »

...rushed to Washington to advise industrialist Bernard Goldfine how to contain the scandal over his gift of a vicuna coat to Sherman Adams, Eisenhower's chief of staff. As McCrary tells it, Safire crawled across an outside window ledge on an upper floor of the Sheraton-Carlton Hotel to nab an assistant to columnist Drew Pearson and a congressional investigator bugging Goldfine's room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WILLIAM SAFIRE: Prolific Purveyor Of Punditry | 2/12/1990 | See Source »

...Sidney Lumet film Q and A, Blades has completed acting parts in three movies: Spike Lee's film; The Lemon Sisters, starring Diane Keaton; and The Two Jakes, the sequel to Chinatown that features Jack Nicholson as star and director. Nicholson shot around Blades' music tour in order to nab him for the role of Mickey Nice, a Jewish gangster from Los Angeles' Boyle Heights section. "He brought a lot of energy and good acting instincts to the role," reports Nicholson. "I think the result is fabulous." Blades and his band Son del Solar (Sound of the Tenement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUBEN BLADES: Singer, Actor, Politico | 1/29/1990 | See Source »

...forces in Panama in preparation for a possible strike, adding 4,500 combat troops, as well as tanks and attack helicopters, to the 8,500 soldiers already deployed at U.S. bases. The force was so strong that Pentagon planners had briefly considered dispatching a column of U.S. troops to nab Noriega during an ill- ! fated uprising by P.D.F. officers last October. That daring plan was quickly -- and, as it turned out, wisely -- discarded as too risky and uncertain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sowing Dragon's Teeth | 1/1/1990 | See Source »

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