Word: catches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rabelais to the dissatisfactions of playing chess against a computer to the question of why butterflies are considered beautiful. And his mind is agile. When he discovers that the framework of a crinoline gown in the Kremlin museum contains a tube that used to be filled with honey to catch stray fleas, he reflects on how the flea learned to jump 100 times its own length...
...directions, four cars race down a seedy strip of highway toward an abandoned gray house. A vice raid is under way on Houston's north side, and alongside the sergeant in the Chrysler's front seat, citizen Dan Hurlbut, smut buster, unsheathes a dark cigar and relishes the upcoming catch...
Crimson players chased Penn State players in a maddening game of catch-me-if-you-can. Harvard couldn't. Not in such a short time...
CAPTION: DISAPPOINTING CATCH...
...necessarily reassuring, reality of his own. Parent is a droll reminder that nature adores deception. His admission that "in order to be strong I needed to have secrets" sounds no more or no less deceitful than the call of any unhousebroken creature who relies on stealth to catch a meal, a mate or juicy material for a novel...