Word: catches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...game started ominously. Nervous at the prospect of an unbeaten record, the Yardlings allowed Yale a run in the first inning. Harvard didn't catch up until the fifth on a single by Garcia. Yale quickly regained the lead, scoring in the next inning on a sacrifice fly. With defeat looming, Demichele drove in a run in the eighth to keep Harvard alive and send the game into extra innings. In the tenth the deluge came...
...classic Marxist fashion, the political "superstructure" would scramble to catch up to a profound change in the economic structure. However, the men who will preside over that change are characters who would horrify any respectable Marxist: the bankers of Western Europe and North America. It makes you wonder, at times, whether capitalism doesn't still have a few more useful functions to fulfill...
...next day, a few of us were waiting at the airport trying to catch a flight back to Boston. A flight through Cincinnati and Washington was about to leave. We stood, un washed, bleary-eyed in the half-fare line. Just before take-off, Larry O'Brien, ex-Postmaster General now masterminding Bobby's campaign, arrived. We hissed. He turned, glanced at our buttons, smiled. We told him we would see him in California. The Crusade had still to reach the Holy Land
...whiz, that kind of carryin' on has been all the rage from these Kansas plains clear out West to Hollywood and beyond. You mean it's just startin' to catch on back East...
...through the whole thing in my mind. I have to do that because I wake up in a familiar place that isn't what it was. I wake up and I see blue coats and brass buttons all over the campus. ("Brass buttons, blue coat, can't catch a nanny goat" goes the Harlem nursery rhyme.) I start to go off the campus but then remember to turn and walk two blocks uptown to get to the only open gate. There I squeeze through the three-foot "out" opening in the police barricade, and I feel for my wallet...