pluck

“It’s an opportunity for us to get faster,” says Hill, a Nike veteran plucked out of retirement by company co-founder Phil Knight just over a year ago to lead the sneaker giant’s turnaround.

“The phrase ‘Atlantic forces’ once sounded powerful, but what we have is not enough to pluck more than ten to twenty hairs from the fur of the British lion.”

The robot plucked sea stars and sea urchins and sea snails from the water and dropped them into rock pools along the shore.

Though maybe not: Many of those girls smoked in the washroom and had very thin plucked eyebrows and Fire and Ice lipstick, and I found them scary.

Then he craned his neck around, plucked out one of his feathers, and laid it on the ground by their feet.