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Word: catched (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quite a catch. The mysterious depositor was Michael G. Thevis, 46, who once described his Atlanta-based $100 billion-a-year empire as "the GM of pornography." Thevis controlled one of the nation's largest networks of adult bookstores, X-rated movie theaters, and peep-show machines. Seven months before, Thevis had escaped from a minimum-security jail in New Albany, Ind., while serving 8½ years for arson and interstate transportation of obscene material. He was held without bail; police also arrested a companion, Anna Jeanette Evans, 40, who was waiting for him outside the bank, and charged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Killing for Smut | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...minor masterpiece when he submitted it to their Hogarth Press. For half a century, biographies, essays, librettos, novels and poems fell from his prolific pen; Plomer had no typewriter. "Machines do not like me," he explained. "When I touch them they tend to break down, get jammed, catch fire, or blow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Minor Master | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

Harvard came back with an 80-yd., 9-play drive to pull within a touchdown. Key plays: third-and-19 from the Harvard 11, Brown pass to Horner at the 50 for an eventual 59-yd, gain. Also, John Macleod's 8-yd. TD catch (5:51, Bosnic PAT good, Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TEAM STATISTICS | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

...team physician two years ago, believes clean play can cut injuries dramatically. "My favorite play is an incomplete pass," says he. "Nobody ever gets hurt in high school on an incomplete pass because there's no hitting. In the pros, receivers get pounded whether or not they catch the ball." Racking up the empty-handed receiver is just one practice in the N.F.L. that angers and frustrates Verbruggen and Pleasant Valley's coaches, because it invites imitation. Spearing (the vicious ramming of a downed player with the hardshell helmet), late hits, chop blocks, open taunts and intimidation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Pennsylvania: Trying to Make Football Injury-Free | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

...game in the balance, (Yale had just missed a field goal) Brownie hit Horner 30 yards upfield to retain possession. Following a 14-yd. screen run by Polillio, and a pass to Horner at the 5, Harvard pulled within seven points. The score came on a brilliant catch by John MacLeod with 5:51 left...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Yale Runs Past Harvard, 35-28 | 11/18/1978 | See Source »

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