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Coach Gary Moeller went into Ohio, enemy territory, and snatched up two Heisman Trophy winners in less than 10 years, that's pretty significant and that should be part of Gary Moeller legacy. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Former Michigan football coach Gary Moeller watches the second half of an exhibition NCAA college basketball game against Wayne State in Ann Arbor, Mich., Nov. 4, 2013. Former Michigan, Illinois and Detroit Lions coach Moeller died Monday, July 11, 2022. Gary Moeller was 81. The University of Michigan announced Gary Moeller death, and no cause was provided. ( AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File).

Desmond Howard

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

General belief amongst all traders especially new ones is that stock market only falls and the way to make some money is to start the session everyday with short selling. But they also believe that all profits are snatched by crook brokerage houses by squandering their accounts

Lakshheish M Patel

added by laksheishmpatel_2
1 year ago

With that, I snatched the cover off him, and saw a horror that will never leave my mind, i fainted at the shock of my child's mutilated body.

Anthony Carter

Found on CNN
2 years ago

My son was snatched from my heart.

Muayyad Allawy

Found on CNN
2 years ago

You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed. They rebel in the street. They will take pot... and they will get high. They don't want to go to school because they're going to be snatched off from their mothers to be shot in Vietnam, because there is a war on and I pray that there will be a just and honest peace -- that still doesn't give us a free ticket not to try to work for better things such as against crime in the streets, for better education and better health for our people.

Eartha Kitt

Found on CNN
3 years ago

No Angeleno should ever have to fear being snatched from their home or separated from their loved ones — and we are doing everything we can to provide immigrant families with the information and support they need.

Eric Garcetti

Found on CNN
4 years ago

So I thought either Grey Grey Worm or Missandei, that one would be taken from another. I honestly thought Grey Worm was gone in that episode, and I even had that thought :' Take me !' She's come through so much s ** t that she's had to deal with her life. As soon as it looks like they're about to enjoy it, it all gets snatched away. So I didn't expect it and I had to lay down the script for a bit.

Jacob Anderson

Found on CNN
4 years ago

He kept saying' test it.' They snatched him out of the car, handcuffed him and banged him around a little bit.

Peter Wright

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I thought what a bargain, there must not be many tickets left — and I snatched them up straight away.

Duncan Robb

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It then started looking like things were turning more violent. By the time I realized it was turning violent, someone had already snatched my phone and half of them had run out. I looked back again and saw that they were attacking this one family.

Read MoreBART spokeswoman Alicia Trost

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Why the NRC snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, I don't know.

Dave Lochbaum

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

One of the gunmen snatched my phone and made calls to Pakistan.

Superintendent Salwinder Singh

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observation with which wives, mothers, and sisters watch the other unreasoning animal in those moments when he has snatched the reins out of their hands, and is not to be spoken to! . It is best to let him come to, and feel his own helplessness.

Margaret Oliphant Oliphant

added by anonymous
9 years ago

I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

Henrik Ibsen

added by anonymous
9 years ago

I believe a man is born first unto himself --for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty things are to be snatched for, and pleasant things tasted; some people seem to exist thus right to the end. But most are born again on entering manhood; then they are born to humanity, to a consciousness of all the laughing, and the never-ceasing murmur of pain and sorrow that comes from the terrible multitudes of brothers.

D. H. Lawrence

added by anonymous
10 years ago

I believe a man is born first unto himself-for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty things are to be snatched for, and pleasant things tasted some people seem to exist thus right to the end. But most are born again on entering manhood then they are born to humanity, to a consciousness of all the laughing, and the never-ceasing murmur of pain and sorrow that comes from the terrible multitudes of brothers.

D. H. Lawrence

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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