Word: catch-as-catch-can
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Unlike the free-for-all of catch-as-catch-can wrestling, Greco-Roman rules forbid use of the legs for attack or defense. That eliminates tripping, tackling, scissors grips and grapevine holds, and reduces wrestling to a grunting test of back, arms and shoulder strength. Popular in Europe, Greco-Roman leaves most Americans cold...
...didn't do it now, nobody else would." Thanks to Scalzo's tireless prodding, 41 competitors got on the mat to grapple for the Greco-Roman titles. The large turnout meant that matches had to be cut to ten minutes-from the regular 15. As in catch-as-catch-can, Greco-Roman allows points for falls, near falls, takedowns, reversals and "activity." Discredit points are handed out for illegal holds, unsportsmanlike conduct...
...that Viereck urges a return to catch-as-catch-can capitalism. The New Deal had its faults--and he delights in confronting his intellectuals with them--but its conservative contribution to the idea of a mixed economy far out weighs its blunders. However, Viereck feels that government can go too far, and that this limit is now being approached...
...beginning of Mamie's real education - and of a rambling, catch-as-catch-can existence which only an Army wife who remembers the appropriations drought between the two world wars could really appreciate. The cubbyhole at Fort Sam was only the first of some 20 different quarters which Mamie has occupied in the decades since; she learned to clean, decorate, move out; to clean and decorate again; to pay bills and dress on Army pay ; and to catch yet another train...
...train-platform speech at Parkersburg, W. Va. last week, Harry Truman once again proved his speed in the catch-as-catch-can school of political debate. Full of fine indignation, the President labeled Republican opponents of his foreign policy as "these snollygosters."* Mr. Truman's tone left no doubt that a snollygoster was a low creature indeed, but few, if any, of his hearers knew what snollygoster meant. According to one austere authority, the word is "a lower grade of colloquialism." Of obscure origin, it was given classic definition in the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch, which...