Word: catches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...here at St. Paul Civic Center Friday night, this gopher was too fast for the Maine Black Bears to catch--exploding for a third-period hat trick that lifted Minnesota to a 7-4 triumph over Maine in the NCAA semifinals...
...parents go to sleep at 10 p.m. so they have enough energy to wake me up at 7 a.m. Yesterday I had to catch a 9 a.m. flight to Boston. It takes 20 minutes to get to the airport. They woke me up at 5:15. (I wish I were joking...
...since 1973. If there ever was a time for Bill Cleary to spill his cliches about Harvard's special brand of hockey, it was Saturday. It was the perfect time to talk about the virtues of a skating team as opposed to a physical team. ("If you can't catch us, youcan't hit us.") It was the perfect time to talkabout the hockey world's anti-Harvard sentiments("Everyone wants to get the Johnnies.") Instead,Cleary gave a season valedictory...
...failed to apply himself. "Abe Lincoln and them people were self-taught," he said. But Reggie's teachers say he did try, he struggled to overcome a third-grade reading level, fought off the exhaustion of practice and in the end succumbed to the realization that he could not catch up. "He was hoping against hope," says Jack Carmichael, who heads the school's social sciences program. "Goddam, he deserved it. He wanted to have the initiative to make up the deficiency, but I'm not sure he could ever have made it up, short of taking three years...
Fraudulent telemarketers are particularly hard to catch because they tend to keep their operations small. The typical setup is a "boiler room" in which a dozen or more employees reading from sales scripts feverishly work the phones, contacting hundreds of potential victims a day. Thousands of boiler rooms are located in the Sunbelt states stretching from Florida to California. At one point, so many sprang up in part of Fort Lauderdale that federal investigators dubbed the area "Maggot Mile...