It was telling that the contest ended with Petr Cech clawing down a looping header from underneath his crossbar.
It would just take generations of people to find it, clawing down into the earth year after year until they touched stone.
On a recent weekday, when the island was closed to the public, a visitor could hear the groans and beeps of giant earthmovers, clawing down old buildings and redistributing the rubble to help create a new park.
She leapt into action, right claw coming down hard….
Hold claw, pull down on small pincer and pull it off.
"I always assumed, like everyone else, it was the claw coming down," said Dr. Roy E. Ritzmann, a professor of biology at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, who in the 1970's described how the shrimp's fast-closing claw mechanism worked.
Presumably the anaesthetist preparing me for the operation diminished the flow of chloroform too soon, because I became conscious, without the least idea of where I was or what was happening: all I knew was that I was lying on my back, on a bed, with a stifling claw clamped down on my face.
Taking a risk that could result not only in embarrassment but imprisonment, Nathan Fielder handcuffs himself to a metal frame and gives himself 90 seconds to escape before a robotic claw pulls down his pants in front of a crowd of children, with a police officer standing by to arrest him, thus making him him a sex offender for life.
Kahlenberg shot for goal, but Maarten Stekelenberg, the Dutch goalkeeper, clawed it down with both hands.
