Word: catch-as-catch-can
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...effects of yogic practices, which he continued as much for self as for Science. Before he took up yoga he suffered frequent headaches, lacked vigor. Now: "No work, physical or mental, could tire me so rapidly as it did before. . . . My mental-emotional life is no longer a blind catch-as-catch...
...method of his teaching, as it lives in my own memory, seems to me to have been more like a catch-as-catch-can wrestling match than like ordinary instruction. What happened was that you were summoned to his chambers in Hollis and told to bring with you your manuscript. You were told how to read what you had written. Soon you began to feel that out of the darkness all around you long fingers were searching through the layers of fat and fluff to find your bones and muscles underneath. You could fight back but eventually...
...House ditched (207-to-204) a bill by Kentucky's Vinson for the Treasury to raise money catch-as-catch-can to pay off the Soldiers' Bonus, passed (318-to-90) and sent to the Senate a bill by Texas' Patman to pay off the Bonus in greenbacks...
When another of his men, buzzard-bald Thomas Semmes Walmsley, Mayor of New Orleans, broke with Boss Long six months ago, the Louisiana "Kingfish" was less delighted. Last week he began his battle for revenge, a titan struggle of political machines, a free-for-all catch-as-catch-can with the courts, the national guard, the police, machine guns, radio and bad names as weapons. Point of the fight: Louisiana holds its Democratic primary Sept...
...General Johnson's attempt to get even by having Secretary Wallace refuse the low bid of a Ford dealer on 1,600 trucks for the Civilian Conservation Corps was frustrated by Comptroller General McCarl (TIME, Nov. 6, 13). Last week General Johnson again tried by catch-as-catch-can tactics to throw Mr. Ford. Once again General Johnson was set back on his heels...