Word: catches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...College is caught "in a catch-22," Breen said, explaining that the decrease the sensitivity of the detectors would be illegal. Ongoing renovations only seem likely to increase the dust and other alarm-triggered particles, he said...
...They overthrew a government. They took on the Soviet army. In six days the Hungarian people made history-six days that shook the world. After the week's events, the Communist empire could never be the same. The rest of the world could only look on with a catch in its heart, while thousands who must have known they could expect no outside aid chose, in Jefferson's phrase, to refresh the tree of liberty with blood...
Joseph Heller's Catch-22, the first novel by this 39-year-old escapee from McCall's promotion department, is powerful, clumsy, angry and comical, somewhat in the manner one would expect of a half-grown rhinoceros. The author seems only occasionally and precariously in control of this Jabberwock of a book, but since Catch-22 is a wild war satire, it does not much matter that the book tramples what scenery it does not chew. The novel's hero is Yossarian, an Air Force captain whose maladjustment is that he is sane. He is stationed...
...They ran the same pattern a lot," Dixon recalled later. "I played about 12 yards back to make it look like a zone. It was a real easy catch. Nothing to do but run after that...
...reared its ugly head again, this time on the game clock. With just more than a dozen seconds left in the half, Army tied it up on a diving 34-yard touchdown catch...