Word: catches
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Police still have apparently failed to catch the assailant, although Brookline police officers deferred all questions pertaining to the case to Detective John Trainor, who is vacationing until late next week...
Peronism was never more than a series of catch phrases to justify Perón's authoritarian rule, extolling nonalignment and a heavy state role in the economy. His economic policies, which poured resources into highly protected, inefficient, state-directed enterprises, depleted Argentina's treasury as the country devoured its foreign exchange earnings from agriculture. In 1955 the military ousted him. Peron eventually settled in Madrid, but he remained in touch with loyal followers back home, encouraging both the right and the left to think that he espoused their goals. In 1973, amid a rising wave of terrorism...
...offensive progressed, the Soviets discovered just how frustrating it can be for a cumbersome, heavily equipped modern army to try to catch up with a smaller, highly motivated and elusive guerrilla foe. They would send in five or six helicopters to circle the area; by the time each helicopter had moved into position, most of the villagers had scurried into shelters. Moreover, many of the bombs failed to detonate, mostly because they ricocheted off mountain rocks. The guerrillas promptly sawed the bombs open, removing the explosives for use as mines. Total casualties after the Soviets dropped 223 bombs...
Peter DeLora would refute that statement. The heavy-set soft-spoken man claims to catch every home game, and he's been working everyday for the past 20 years on Yawkey Way, just behind the bleachers. DeLora helps at Twin Enterprises, the baseball souvenir store that opened 36 years...
...largely our own fault. Back when we were basking in the dreams of an economic never-never land, Nos. 2 and 3 and on down the line were gearing up for just what we've always said American society thrived on-competition. We thought they could never catch up, but they tried harder, and here we are-to paraphrase an old American slogan, a Sony in every house and two Toyotas in every garage...