Word: sacking
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...course, a dark and stormy night. And there is, naturally, something unnameably spooky about the New York City brownstone into which the edgy, newly divorced Meg Altman (Jodie Foster) and her daughter Sarah (Kristen Stewart) have just moved. They have scarcely hit the sack when, sure enough, intruders arrive, squabbling among themselves with menacing fractiousness...
...tiny gas stove. He carefully poured steaming water through what looked suspiciously like a gym sock filled with ground coffee. It dripped into a can already laced with two generous spoonfuls of sweetened condensed milk. In one practiced motion he scooped a plate of ice into a plastic sack, poured in the steaming coffee, stabbed it with a straw and deftly secured the bag with a rubber band. Poon triumphantly handed me the kafae thung and eyed me as I sipped the potent, sweet brew. "Very good Thai coffee," he said, scowling at the empty Starbucks cup rolling around...
...defense against terrorists and traffickers. Vaclav Havlik, a Czech citizen who was part of a group of uranium smugglers arrested near Munich in 1994, told TIME that obtaining material from Russia was no great chore. "It was like going for vacation by the sea and bringing back a sack of shells," he says...
Senior defensive end Marc Laborsky stepped up for the defense and picked up a sack, a fumble recovery and an interception as the defense forced five Lafayette turnovers, despite missing its leading tackler...
Sims has 29 tackles so far this season, along with four for losses. Add a key sack during the third quarter of Harvard’s comeback over Dartmouth, and it’s clear his role has been more than that of peripheral to the likes of senior ends Marc Laborsky and Phil Scherrer. That strong front four has been instrumental in making sure the Crimson, unlike years past, puts teams away for good...