It's one thing plucking up the courage to ask someone to dinner.
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FOR MONTHS Mahathir Mohamad has been plucking up courage to declare that, when it comes to Chinese investment in infrastructure, his is the Malaysia that can say no.
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With the Jersey City waterfront and downtown nearly built out, developers are moving inland, plucking up parcels close to transit; the area around the Journal Square PATH station has become a prime destination.
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He was a bent astronomer, tracing out the circle of time in the singeing stars above the mango trees; the careful stenciller of a flowered window frame, or the planer of a canoe; an egret stalking the reeds, his pen's beak "plucking up wriggling insects/like nouns and gulping them".
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House heads for Cuddy's office and stops in front of the door, clearly plucking up the courage to apologize, but then he spots Lucas and sees him and Cuddy happily looking at something on their laptop. House turns around and leaves.
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Plucking up courage, Andrei goes home and confessed to Olga, who for a long time already all guessed. But Andrei is an exemplary employee, a member of the Comminst Party and, in addition, he posts one of the senior positions at the plant, has a personal chauffeur. For these reasons he is not allowed to divorce. In the end the Kalmykov loses both of his beloved women.
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The sisters celebrate the successful surgery but Lexie is devastated when she discovers that the patient suffered severe brain damage, thus losing the ability to speak. Alex, Jackson and April move out of Meredith's house without inviting Lexie to join them, and with Derek and Meredith settling down with baby Zola, Lexie begins to feel lonely and isolated. Lexie is left babysitting Zola on Valentine's Day and contemplates confessing her true feelings to Mark. But after plucking up the courage to visit his apartment, she finds Mark studying with Jackson and loses her nerve, instead claiming that she wanted to set up a playdate for the kids.
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The subsequent reaction was amazing – people would scream and sometimes even flee the theater in terror. As Eck described it, "The men were more frightened than the women – the women couldn't move because the men were walking across their laps, headed for the exit." The act provided the perfect jolt by frightening people at first but then caused just as much laughter and applause."Magic's Most Unusual Illusion", David Charvet, Magic, June 1997 The illusion would end with stage hands plucking up Eck and setting him atop his legs and then twirling him off-stage to be replaced by his twin Robert, who would then loudly threaten to sue Raboid and storm out of the theater.
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He cultivated an air of mystery about himself by keeping himself largely apart from wider community life, speaking seldom, and traveling largely at night. His house was locally known as a "place to avoid" and those visiting him reportedly often waited for some time outside, plucking up the courage to enter. Within the cottage, Murrell had drying herbs hanging from his ceiling, and his devices were reported to include a crystal, a mirror, and a bowl of water. Other items that Murrell used in his magical practices were a copper charm with which he would allegedly distinguish whether an individual was lying or not, and a "trick" telescope that supposedly enabled him "to see through brick walls".
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