Word: catch-as-catch-can
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...Earmarked for direct relief two special tax funds (instead of taking relief catch-as-catch-can out of general funds...
...York Herald Tribune's Tokyo correspondent, Wilfrid Fleisher, who is also managing editor of Japan's best English-language newspaper, Japan Advertiser, likes to tell about playing catch-as-catch-can with Japanese censors. When he found that Japanese could tag him whenever he wrote things down, but lagged far behind when he spoke English, he began telephoning his stories to the Tribune...
...three stodgy weeks that body had shifted uneasily about in the un accustomed formal garments of full-dress debate. But last week the Senate, almost to a man, happily shucked its tight collar, stripped off the white gloves. The nodding press gallery awoke, and in five days of catch-as-catch-can heckling the Senate finished its task, passed the Pittman Bill after 26 days and 1,000,000 words of the Great Debate...
...Continued its catch-as-catch-can bout with potent Transamerica Corp. Going into its fifth week, SEC's investigation of A. P. Giannini's big bank holding company, on charges of false stock registration (TIME, Dec. 12), was still in the legal fencing stage...
...small, unassuming man-whose grammar is something less than perfect ("I never had no time for hobbies") but whose 37 years in the catch-as-catch-can grain brokerage business have made him widely known as the "honest Irishman"-was last week elected president of the Chicago Board of Trade...