Word: catch-as-catch-can
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...tangible place to start would be the loss of home ice. The problem here was not one of small crowds and no section 18, but of practice time. The icemen were forced to work out at haphazard hours of the day amd at multiple sites. What resulted from the catch-as-catch-can training was chaotic cohesion and execution during games...
...base in Los Angeles, Fa ther Nick Weber, 33, and two companions carom round the country in a battered station wagon giving performances of the Royal Liechtenstein One-Quarter-Ring Sidewalk Circus, an amiable blend of circus acts and low-key morality plays. Weber and company live a frugal, catch-as-catch-can existence, begging meals and a place to sleep wherever they stop. A Rochester, N.Y., Jesuit high school teacher, Father William S. O'Malley, is in a different kind of show business: a role in The Exorcist...
...Prohibition fused the amateurism and catch-as-catch-can national tendencies of the early days of the republic with a more modern, highly organized lust for violence and the quick buck. It fused the need to massacre twelve hundred thousand American Indians and ten million American buffalo, the lynching bees, the draft riots, bread riots, gold riots and race riots, the constant wars, the largest rats in the biogest slums, boxing and football, the loudest music, the most strident and exploitative press with the entire wonderful promise of tomorrow and tomorrow, always dragging the great nation downward...
...Chinese-style "war of liberation." Three months after Mandela and Sisulu were convicted, Fischer was arrested as an accomplice. He then jumped a $14,000 bond and went into hiding - growing a goatee, dyeing his hair black and winning the romantic nickname of "the Scarlet Pimpernel" for his risky, catch-as-catch-can existence. Fischer was finally captured in Johannesburg last November - and convicted last week. His sentence: life imprisonment...
...somehow the generals came together under one man: Lieut. General Suharto, 45, who became army chief of staff last October after the attempted coup. Suharto was always personally devoted to Sukarno, though disagreeing with him on his left-leaning politics and catch-as-catch-can statesmanship. Last October, Suharto's disagreement deepened into bitterness when he saw the bodies of six anti-Communist generals killed during the coup attempt. In recent weeks, Suharto and Nasution had been huddling with ranking officers in Bandung and Djakarta, and all agreed that Sukarno had to knuckle under once...