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Word: catches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because Greer and Connolly Saturday became the first Harvard split ends in 33 games to catch a touchdown pass...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: No More Wally Rutecki | 11/13/1985 | See Source »

England holds little of substance for its prodigal son. He makes an effort to catch up on popular culture by way of television, and fails: "The jokes were unanswerable riddles. He watched, baffled, as a housewife on a quiz show identified six different TV series from a medley of their signature tunes." Sheila, his daughter from a marriage that failed long ago, is approaching 40 and has become an author of trendy, feminist nonfiction. Taking a taxi to visit her, Grey marvels at the rudeness of his driver and at the deteriorating London landscape: "It looked a lawless country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Channels Foreign Land | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

...Everywhere I go, kindness," he says. "Some cruelty, but nothing hurts my feelings because I feel comfortable. Except in Cleveland, where I catch cold. Ah-ha-ha. Because God made me this way, I'm not mad. I have fun all the time. Oh man, I just want to be a good basketball player." Bol's regimen for gaining weight is as oppressive as Perry's diet, though they are closing on each other cautiously. Perry says, "I don't want to be too thin." Bol says, "I don't want to be too fat." Their grace per pound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hurry, Hurry, Step Right Up | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

...Columbia for 15 years and lived with her family in a university-owned building were to die, her husband and family would be evicted from their home--that is, if their neighbors informed on them. More recently, Columbia has tightened the net by computerizing housing and personnel records to catch "illegitimate" tenants...

Author: By John Ross, | Title: Disaster In Morningside Heights | 11/9/1985 | See Source »

Quaker Chris Flynn signaled for a fair catch, but let the ball bounce instead. A Princeton player subsequently tried to down the ball, touched it, but failed to control it. As Princeton players trudged off the field--thinking the ball had been downed--the pigskin continued to bounce freely...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: There's a Meaning in Here Somewhere | 11/5/1985 | See Source »

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