Word: catch-as-catch-can
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...Capp always stepped in, in time's nick, with a save. Once, at the crucial moment, a gas explosion blasted Abner into a tree out of Daisy Mae's reach. Another time, after Preacher Sam had completed the $1.25 ceremony (with "hootin' an' hollerin', catch-as-catch-can rasslin' . . . and several embarrassin' jokes told in a loud voice as yo' departs on yore honeymoon"), Li'l Abner was reprieved; his marriage license had expired. But this week the most unthinkable is happening. Man of Honor. As all Al Capp...
...American take of the world's raw materials (about 50% of the total) might have to be cut. Last week at their Washington meetings Truman and Attlee laid the groundwork for an end to catch-as-catch-can buying (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Best guess was that a group similar to the Combined Raw Materials Board of World War II would be set up to make sure that the raw materials of the West went where they were most needed...
...grabbing was a catch-as-catch-can business at first: gold seekers and homesteaders just moved in and made themselves at home. In 1880, after the angry Utes killed twelve whites, the Government officially took away all their land...
Elsewhere, except in Latin America, where New Year's is likely to be one of the hottest days of summer, celebrations will be mainly on a catch-as-catch-can basis. In Athens, the Robert Lows could figure on no central heating after ten o'clock, candlelight after 1 a.m., and no dancing at all (forbidden because of Greece's "cold war"). In divided, blockaded Berlin, under the now familiar drone of the airlift planes, most bureau-men planned to spend New Year's quietly at home, or, more likely, out covering the news...
...Catch-as-Catch-Can. In Newport, R.I., the historic Old Colony House clock stopped when the hands scissored together, caught a somnolent starling. In Milwaukee, Leon Culberson stole second base when the umpire's mask caught what the catcher missed...