Word: catches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...picture. Quite literally. Within a few laps, Singh was already so far behind the pack that the camera didn't even follow him. Yet still he kept on going. One could imagine the view from his end: the dispiriting sight of distant bodies receding as he tried to catch them, then the even more desolating sight of nothing but open track. That is why the lonely figure, isolated as a marathon runner, received the loudest cheers of all. It is also why all eyes except the camera's were trained on the lanky 32-year-old man with dark, long...
...much the senses that TV misses -- the smell of the chalk, the feel of the sun, the deafening chants that greet every Korean judoka -- as it is the confusion. TV likes the orderly. It cannot, therefore, catch the lovely mayhem of gymnastics, the dizzying lyricism of a four-square circus in which everything is happening at once: a Japanese girl running furiously toward the | vault, even as an East German prances through her floor exercises, a Guatemalan teeters on the balance beam, a Bulgarian attacks the parallel bars. The first time one sees a gymnast leap, one's heart flies...
Belatedly aware of the folly of total dependence on manned launch vehicles to deploy spacecraft, the U.S. has been forced to play a catch-up game. Since January 1986, the Soviets have launched scores of satellites, sent two / scientific probes to Mars, and ferried a stream of cosmonauts between the earth and the space station Mir -- all with the aid of antiquated but tried- and-true expendable rockets. In the process, they have pushed far ahead of the U.S. in knowledge of the effects of extended space flight on humans...
Harvard had plenty of chances to catch up, but couldn't put the ball into the incredible shrinking net behind B.C. goalie Diane Cordano. Shots were booted just over the net, crossing passes headed right into Cordano, breakaways kicked just wide...
...That's not really beyond Holy Cross," Frilot said. "They will do anything to catch you off-guard...