Word: takedown
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...looked as if Keith had a tough bout in store, as Penhale caught the young grappler’s leg and tripped him for an early takedown. But after a number of battles in which neither player could score, Keith blocked Penhale’s leg on a restart, giving the Crimson wrestler leverage for a reversal. Drawing on his momentum, Keith easily escaped again to start the second frame, en route to 11 unanswered points and a definitive...
...combination of dewy do-gooderism and combat sports seems perfectly calculated to reach the widest demographic. Boys love violence; girls love love. Boys love football; girls love stories of strong women bucking the odds. The picture cagily begins with a dose of football mayhem: Lawrence Taylor's crippling 1985 takedown of Joe Theismann, later voted the NFL's Most Shocking Moment in History in an ESPN poll. That gets the guys' attention. And for the gals, there's Sandra Bullock, at age 45 the No. 1 movie heroine (after her summer smash The Proposal), as Leigh Anne Tuohy, the Memphis...
...Soon after, he shut it down for good and made for the U.S., where Gropius, the Alberses and Moholy-Nagy would also end up as hugely influential teachers and practitioners. The Bauhaus was gone, but its gospel would go on. Decades later, Tom Wolfe would call his lightheartedly reactionary takedown of modernism From Bauhaus to Our House. No matter what you think of the book, you can't say he didn't get the title right...
...proud profession." Even with a vast aquatic runway at their disposal - a luxury that Langewiesche suggests would have enabled any equally skilled pilot to duplicate Sullenberger and Skiles' accomplishment - he makes clear that the plane's crew members have much to be proud of. The book is not a takedown, but rather a reminder that opportunity, not valor, is perhaps the better part of heroism...
...Crimson’s final competitor faced the hardest tournament of all, bowing out before he really got started. In Jantzen’s first bout, his opponent pulled around him in a takedown attempt as the sophomore’s ankle got caught in the mat. Jantzen had nursed a bad ankle throughout the season and this final twist proved too much for the joint to bear...