Word: catches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campaign to squelch the pressures and psychology of inflation. Rising taxes will make the battle easier and will siphon funds away from investors. On Jan. 1, Social Security taxes went up by $3.6 billion a year. By April 15, taxpayers must give Washington an extra $11 billion in catch-up payments for the second quarter of 1968, when the 10% income-tax surcharge was not withheld from salaries. With a shrinking federal deficit also sucking steam from the economy, Wall Street is looking for a noticeable slowdown in U.S. business growth over the next few months. While that may hurt...
...often happens, the law in Kelley's case was slow to catch up with the reality. In most California cities, topless dancers are now hopelessly oldfashioned. In one Los Angeles pool hall, the men around the tables hardly notice the topless dancer ten feet away from them. Many nightclubs are now promoting the "bottomless" dancer, who performs covered only by a G string, known as a "Band-Aid," or, in the case of one San Francisco dancer, a gold heart from Tiffany's that says "love" in six languages...
...himself. "I am not a Romantic in revolt," he wrote, "nor a mystic scorning life, nor an insolent belligerent against Substance. I do not feel possessed by any illusion. I enter into all traps-like some extremely elastic rat, which enters the trap, eats the mixture set to catch it, and then goes on to other traps, well aware that the last trap-the trap of Death-is there waiting...
...house, hawkers shout, traffic rumbles and pedestrians chatter. Inside the wall, no one speaks to Anthony Grey, Reuters' man in Peking. Grey is confined to a 12-ft.-square whitewashed room, whose window is partially boarded up. Through the window, he can see the wall, and he can catch only a glimpse of a tiny courtyard and-again-the wall. The door of his room stands open, so. that the ever-present guard at the gate can see him at all times. For five months of the year, the room is chilled by icy winds that blow down...
...Bombed in New Haven--Joseph Heller's anti-war play, that, while no "Catch-22," has nice moments all the same. With Diana Sands and Jason Richards. Closes Dec. 29. At the AMBASSADOR, W. 49th...