Word: catches
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...supposed to be a political snapshot that just might catch a picture of the grass-roots trends in Western Europe. But the image that developed last week was blurred and distorted, a reflection of a Continent scowling and at odds with itself. Voters from the ten-nation European Community had gone to the polls to elect 434 members of the European Parliament, the largely ineffectual assembly that holds fading hopes of linking national politics to a united Europe. If the 60% turnout was low by European standards, voters could hardly be blamed: the campaign had focused on narrow national issues...
Usually she manages. On talk shows these days, she is always asked, with reference to the title of the new book, to name the oldest profession. She skips a beat, looks solemn and says, "Agriculture." It is very hard to catch her off balance. Her editor at McGraw-Hill, Gladys Justin Carr, recalls a lunch meeting in Chicago when Bombeck was publicizing her fifth book, If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, hoping to match the previous sales of The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank. As Bombeck was about...
Olympic officials will be on the lookout for more than 300 drugs that athletes are forbidden to use. And, in what is the toughest action to date against drug users by any athletic body, the Interna tional Olympic Committee has instituted a testing system that seems almost certain to catch anyone who aims at getting a medal with the aid of a pill or a needle. Among the targets of the tests: amphetamines and, possibly the most dangerous drugs ever tak en by athletes, anabolic steroids...
...touch bottom, literally in a den of thieves, and he is in haste to find it. The intelligence of Gallo's work lies in his recognition that the symbolic values of Under the Volcano's major figures, incidents and landscape are intrinsic and easy to catch. They need no forcing...
...beginning of actual fighting did catch the network's attention, but it did not end the correspondents' problems with bosses who were entertainment biggies, not newsmen. No one had ever covered a war by radio, but it was clear to Shirer and Murrow that the way to do it was to record the sounds of bombs and guns-and interviews with combatants when these could be arranged-and then to weave these bits into a nightly broadcast. The Germans, proud of their blitzkrieg success in the early months of the war, offered mobile recording facilities. CBS refused, Shirer...