Word: catching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Adding to the pressure, the Crimson was in the midst of a gallant comeback bid, trying to catch Princeton before the meet ended. Not only did Bird need the victory, but his team needed it as well...
While Kalb exemplifies the laid-back, more intellectual approach, the more provocative method can be found in David Frost's program "The Next President." Frost, who also interviewed a dozen would-be presidents in hour-long installments, made every effort to catch his guests off guard. Frost asked the Rev. Pat Robertson to explain what it was like to speak in tongues, and relentlessly questioned Rep. Jack Kemp (R-N.Y.) about contradictions in his views on abortion...
...forcefulness of Watkins' proposals seemed to catch the Administration off guard. "We'll have to look at the specifics," said White House Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater. "We want a realistic assessment of what the problem is and how much it's going to cost, and it sounds like that's what they're going to give us." Says Domestic Policy Adviser Gary Bauer: "We wouldn't dismiss anything just because of the cost." Still, skeptics doubt whether the President or Congress will really use the ambitious blueprint as a guide. Watkins professes to be unconcerned. "It's not in our charter...
...jostling for advantage on the presidential campaign's biggest battleground. Dukakis, who easily won the Minnesota Democratic caucuses with 34% of the vote, concentrated on the South's urban areas and ethnic voters. Native Son Gore, who ignored Iowa and ran poorly in other Northern contests, finds himself playing catch-up with the better-known contenders. Richard Gephardt won big in the South Dakota primary (with 44% of the Democratic vote), but he trails the others in recent Southern polls...
...Tammy Bakker and the revelation of Jim's payment of $265,000 in ministry funds to cover up sexual straying. Next came the revelations of the Bakkers' morass of financial mismanagement and personal aggrandizement at PTL. Suddenly watching evangelists became a national pastime; the place to catch them was as likely to be on the evening news or Nightline as in the electronic pulpit...