Word: catchingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Africa's struggle against colonialism; was guest of honor at an official city luncheon in the Commodore Hotel and at a Waldorf-Astoria dinner given by the African-American Institute. At week's end he canceled a proposed 48-hour visit to Canada, announced he would catch his breath in Manhattan before flying off this week for London and home...
...jerkwater traffic traps set to catch and fleece U.S. motorists, the most wondrously efficient was a fast-flicking traffic light in southeast Georgia's tiny (pop. 2,100) Ludowici.* The Ludowici light, which has brought the American Automobile Association more complaints than any other light in the U.S., hangs astride the intersection of two heavily traveled highways: State 38 to Savannah and a combined U.S. 25 and U.S. 301, which funnels thousands of vacationers from the East and Midwest toward Florida. For traffic on U.S. 25-301 (which makes a 90° turn), the light has been known...
...president, with a ten-year sliding-scale contract that pays him upwards of $150,000 yearly. Kintner frankly admits that he applied his ABC formula: canned series, westerns, private eyes-plus quizzes. He knifed Wide Wide World, Omnibus, live dramatic shows (including Kraft Theater). Says he: "I had to catch up with front-running CBS." This year, Kintner can point to a more exciting NBC season, including 200 specials, a weekly drama show (Sunday Showcase), ambitious news coverage on Khrushchev's visit. (As he had at ABC, Kintner strengthened the NBC news team.) The feeling in the TV industry...
...said Harrison, "that's Han Shan. I got it out of The Dharma Bums. The reason I quoted it was because you have to hear Oriental poems a couple of times before you get used to them. Listen: Red ivy on brown brick/spike heels catch on cobblestone walks/ pennants hang limp on barroom walls/Christ, if my love were in my arms and I in bed again...
...first place. It goes straight to the black market from the warehouse." Sometimes it never even gets to the warehouse; last week a truckload of 84 cases of U.S. butter valued at $3,200 was hijacked from the Pusan pier, and melted away into other hands before MPs could catch up with...