Word: snag
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seeing us would know anything true," notes twelve-year-old Ann August. She and her mother Adele represent a history of shoplifted dresses, bad checks and unfurnished apartments. One epochal day, Adele flashily abandons small-town Wisconsin and whirls to Hollywood, aiming to snag a rich husband and make her child a star. At the Pacific's edge, Ann gently nourishes another dream: to outgrow people like her mother, "who start the noise and bang things, who make you feel the worst; they are the ones who get your love." Finally, Adele taunts once too often...
...Concord native became the first Harvard fencer ever to snag the award as well as Harvard's first individual NCAA champion since...
However, if the Crimson defeats Yale tomorrow at Hemenway to close its Ivy season at 5-0, it will snag the title outright. Harvard demolished Yale, 6-1, in the Howe Cup tourney...
Peltier was also able to snag a double-win evening. In addition to the medley relay, he also touched out teammate (and roommate) David Berkoff in the 200 backstroke, finishing in 1:53.03, just ahead of Berkoff...
...Harvard women's fencing team slipped by the Princeton Tigers, 10-6, Saturday at Princeton to snag its first Ivy League victory of the season. However, the Crimson dropped its second meet later that day to Penn...