Word: snagging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...postponing the election, which was originally scheduled for April 12, the government said that it was doing so for technical reasons. One problem was getting ballots printed up with the new list of eleven instead of 14 eligible parties. Another snag was the election commission's realization that several parties had picked the hammer and sickle as their symbol. That would have made it difficult for the estimated 2 million illiterates among Portugal's 6 million voters to make their choice. Those parties will now be asked to find new symbols. The official three-week campaign is scheduled...
...opponents outscored the cagers by the meager total of eight points. Coach Tom "Satch" Sanders decided it was time for a transfusion of new blood: he substituted Bill Carey and Steve Selinger for Arnie Needleman and Mike Griffin and Harvard won eight out of their last eleven games to snag fourth place in the Ivy League...
...Paul comes back to New York with the heater in one hand and brilliant and revolutionary planning designs in the other, but his feverish little mind is burning with a much grander scheme. Paul decides to kill muggers, and he murders a dozen of them before the police finally snag him. The cops know, however, that to announce his arrest and put him on trial would be to make a martyr of him, so they give him till sunset to get out of town...
Mike Nichols, who has just started directing Nicholson again in a comedy called Fortune, says flatly that Nicholson is destined to become "one of the giant film stars of all time." Tony Richardson, who hopes to snag him for a new film, gushes that "we are entering the era of Jack Nicholson." It is not necessary to have a vested interest, however, to see that Nicholson right now is on top. A look at Chinatown's weekly top-ten placing on Variety charts is one kind of proof, Jack's current $750,000 asking price (plus a good...
Against the Knicks, Cowens repeatedly committed fouls while struggling to snag rebounds to ignite the Celtics fast brook. In four out of the five games, Cowens accummulated five fouls and had to sit on the bench for an average of more than ten minutes. Against the Bucks, the Celts can't afford to have Cowens collecting splinters on the sidelines...