Word: catches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were the joint terrors of the Buddy Werner League races, the local punt, pass and schuss contest. Exactly when Phil slid slightly ahead is unclear, but Steve imagines it was at the starting line. "I was born four minutes later," he says, "and I've been trying to catch up ever since...
...medals. But the Swiss and the East Germans have been masters of the 90-m.p.h., highly technical thrill ride in recent decades. The East Germans now recruit the cream of their summer sprinters for the event's crucial 50-meter running start. The U.S. has moved slowly to catch up. Long controlled by several venerable clubs around Lake Placid, U.S. bobsledding has become parochial and, some critics claim, possibly racist. Efforts to add speedier newcomers have prompted tensions. Blacks, notably Gold Medalist Hurdler Willie Davenport, who competed in 1980, have not been warmly welcomed to the chill upstate...
...shakeout required many companies to re-evaluate their plans. Some firms scaled down their public offerings or postponed them. But the march to market continues. Although December is usually a poor time to catch Wall Street's attention, 105 companies sold stock for the first time last month, and the fast pace is expected to continue this year. Among the firms making initial offerings last week were DNA Plant Technology, a New Jersey agricultural genetics firm; Sporto, a Boston manufacturer of women's foot wear; and Thor Industries, an Ohio maker of motor homes and trailers. Some...
Only now and then does one catch a handsome exit line today. Gary Gilmore, the murderer executed in Utah in 1977, managed a moment of brisk existentialist machismo when he told the warden, "Let's do it." There was a charm, a mist of the fey overlaying the terror, in the official last words that William Saroyan telephoned to the Associated Press before he died in 1981: "Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case. Now what?" Last fall the British Actor John Le Mesurier dictated to his wife...
...seven losses away from Cambridge this year only once has the Crimson come away--against Holy Cross--with less than a 10-point margin of defeat. Usually, the cagers fall behind right at the beginning of the contest and spend the rest of the game trying to play catch...