Word: catches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mondale had difficulty dramatizing his themes. His early advertising spots focused on the deficit, but the issue would not catch on. It was too hypothetical. He raised the question of fairness. But in prosperous times, the middle class tends to focus its gaze upward, not downward...
Running back Jay McNamara did the bulk of the ground work for Quincy, and when Andre capped off a strong Q-House drive with a diving endzone catch early in the second quarter, it looked as though the Red and Gold would take an early lead...
...production can catch all of Wilde's humor. But this production does an admirable job of highlighting as much as possible. The timing, thanks to Director John Wauck, is superb, as the actors jump from one-liner to one-liner. Though the cast is consistently good, Chris Charron's, imperturbable Algernon and Valerie Gilbert's haughty Lady Bracknel steal the show...
...form of polling results read to him by James Johnson, his campaign chairman. The unflappable Johnson was matter-of-fact, but the numbers could hardly have been worse. Not only had the Democratic challenger failed to gain on Ronald Reagan after the second debate, his last clear shot to catch up, but he had fallen even further behind. Said Johnson: "It looks very tough." By Wednesday, Mondale's daily tracking polls showed him trailing Reagan by 16 points, a dispiriting 6-point drop in the four days after the debate...
...Bureau of Astromomical Telegrams, he runs a network that zips word of the latest astronomical discoveries over telegraph wires to stations around the world. The information-including the time of the citing and its specific celestial location-gets to astronomers within moments, in plenty of time for observers to catch a nova while it is still brightening or view a new found comet before it disappears...