Word: catches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gathered in front of television sets for news of what was transpiring in the Kremlin. For many, the stiff, unsmiling black-and-white portrait of Chernenko that appeared on the screen seemed to say it all. Soviets morbidly joked that if they had missed the Andropov funeral, they would "catch the next one." A man overheard on an elevator offered his own explanation of the succession: "Chernenko couldn't make it the first time when he was competing with Andropov. Now that the better man is gone he'll get his chance." Said a worried Moscow housewife: "We are going...
Over those same four years, the icewomen have been improving, but they have never been able to catch the New Jersey powerhouse in Ivy play...
...restraint was accidentally jogged and began floating away in space. "We can go get it," McCandless volunteered. But Commander Brand, exercising caution, immediately replied: "No, no, no, no." Instead, he maneuvered the shuttle toward the fleeing bit of hardware until McCandless could reach out and snare it. The balletic catch brought applause from the Houston controllers. McCandless was pleased too. Improvising on a slogan of an earlier shuttle crew, he joked, "We deliver, but we pick up also...
...team can catch fire this weekend at Syracuse, it stands a chance of going to the Eastern Championships at Middlebury the following weekend. But even if the entire team, men's and women's combined, does not get as far as the Easterns, "the women's teams have a very good chance of going." Allen says, adding that Deehr and Hale could go on to the championships individually...
...federal tax amnesty on Capitol Hill now is Speaker of the House Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill (D-Mass.). But because the Internal Revenue Department and the Treasury oppose the amnesty in principle, and because the idea is so new, it is "too early to tell" whether it will catch on in Washington, says a policy analyst for the tax staff of the House Ways and Means Committee who declined to be identified...