Word: snatched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while the varsity race was a comedy of errors, the J.V. race was a near-tragedy of errors. The Crimson J.V., which trailed a strong Cadet crew throughout its race, managed to snatch a deck-length victory in the last 30 stroke...
Brent Scowcroft, 50, used to snatch a few hours' sleep in Henry Kissinger's White House office during his frequent dusk-to-dawn stints keeping watch over international crises. Having been named to replace Kissinger as head of the National Security Council, Scowcroft will now be able to work there in the daytime too. A slightly built, balding scholar, Scowcroft may well be the ablest member of Ford's White House staff. Now an Air Force lieutenant general, he will resign his commission when he takes over his new job. He became Kissinger's NSC deputy...
With only seconds remaining, the Tigers threatened again when a pack of players swarmed around the net after a direct kick. Herold leaped above the pack to snatch the ball, and with it, the game...
...long poem called "Ego Tripping (there may be a reason why)." The poem seems to invoke the voice of an African goddess who croons a mixture of nursery rhymes, Egyptian myth, parables of the Biblical parables (such as the tale of noah who built new/-ark), and a snatch of the Temptations singing "Psychedelic Shack." All these grandiose items jostle each other benignly without ever coalescing into a meaningful idea: it's just Giovanni presenting her unreal ego. And Time likes to call the poet "a shrewd and energetic propagandist." It kind of reminds you of Beverly Johnson, the black...
Last year, the Crimson squad seemed out of contention for the title with six games to play, but miraculously swept two double-headers from Penn and Princeton to snatch the crown from the Quakers on the last day of the EIBL season...