Word: steals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Only when it had gone down 14-9 did the Crimson snap back to its senses, making a legitimate play to at least steal one game. Harvard fought off nine match points while slowly working its way back into the game, trying at 14-14 on a spectacular pair of blocks from Lewis and Olsen...
...character, language, situation, structure, plot." He does not add "drugs, booze, angry sex, bar fighting, class resentment, familial dysfunction." The kids will learn to chord this country music on their own. Or not. Now they seem shy and tentative. The professor tries to loosen them up: "A good writer steals from other writers," he says. "Got to be willing to steal, to pillage." Got to be willing, Russell Banks might say to himself, to be merely very good in novel after novel while critics use words like talented and valuable and consign you to the respectable second rank...
...legitimate to steal...
...employee of a business on Mass. Ave. in Central Square reported that at 6:45 p.m. a black female attempted to steal approximately 20 pairs of pants by placing them in a large plastic bag. An alarm sounded when the suspect tried to exit the store, and she fled as employees tried to stop her. The merchandise was recovered...
...winning the World Cup. Canadians began to rethink their national plan (More funding? A youth movement? Abandon NAFTA?), but what really upset them was learning that hardly anyone in the U.S. even knew about the contest. It's one thing to import Canadian NHL teams to southern U.S. cities, steal SCTV guys for SNL, infringe on fishing rights, but to beat them at their own sport? This could get ugly...