Word: catches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...horses, including Forward Pass, could be counted on to tire each other out in a fight to establish the lead in the mile and one-quarter race. The question in the stretch would simply be whether the late-running Dancer's Image would be able to catch the tiring Forward Pass. It is a tough assignment for any horse; for a sore-ankled champion, tougher still...
...appeal appears to be working in McCarthy's favor during these last few days of the primary campaign as it did during the last weekend in the New Hampshire campaign. Many feel that the Minnesota Senator may be able to catch up with his quiet appeal...
...must defeat Yale to maintain a mathematical chance of sharing the conference title with Penn and Princeton. Penn clinched at least a tie for the title when it whitewashed Cornell, 9-0, last Saturday. Like Harvard, Princeton must triumph in its final two league contests if it hopes to catch the high-flying Quakers...
...landed a staff job on The New Yorker. "He thought he'd be only a humorist," Mary remembers. "He didn't think of himself as a serious writer." Yet he spent words profligately in an attempt to translate his painter's eye into language, to catch and fix the thing seen and bring all the colors and shapes and textures of the visible world to bear on his narrative. Novelist John Earth calls Updike the "Andrew Wyeth of literature," adding: "I think one has the same mixture of admiration and reservation for the work of both...
...They go right out onto that tiny Lehman Hall stage and play The Merchant of Venice. They seize the work by the lapels, shake it for nearly all they can hope to get out of it and throw what they find at the audience. If you are there to catch what they have, you'll be a pretty happy person...