Word: snagging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...educated cousin Bea. In that guise, Purlie hopes, she can collect from Cap'n Cotchipee the $500 he has held in trust for the real Bea's dead mother. Purlie wants the money to found his church, but when he falls in love with Lutiebelle he runs into a snag. So does the production...
Several basic aspects of the game of basketball were absent from the squad's performance--most notably the ability to shoot from outside the key, snag rebounds and break the opposing team's full court press--and the Crusaders took advantage of these deficiencies...
Harvard's plans for a massive office and condominium complex off Mt. Auburn St. hit an unexpected snag late last week when the city's Historical Commission voted to prevent for at least six months the demolition of two buildings on the site of the proposed development...
...surprisingly, she gets these fairly easily and becomes something of a Soviet Hoosier, quickly peripheral to the film. Liudmilla is going for all the marbles--a half-cocked Lucille Ball-type with fantasies as outrageous as they are unlikely. Naturally, too, hers don't work out. She snags, through an elaborate and rather funny charade, a beefy hockey player, and he, naturally turns into a ne'er-do-well, leaving her on the skids, trying to snag a better catch. She turns into another pant-suited, overly made-up loser with a hopeless streak of fantasy. You can see what...
...then turn over all but 30% of the territory to a joint Palestinian-Jordanian state under Jordan's control. Under this "Jordanian option," Jordan in return would formally recognize Is rael's right to exist, as guaranteed by United Nations Security Council Resolution 242. There is one snag: Jordan's King Hussein would have to be persuaded to go along, but he has thus far repeatedly refused any discussion of the idea...