Word: catchingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Minded W. P. (Bill) Atkinson, 52, Midwest City millionaire builder and hand-picked candidate of incumbent Teetotaler Raymond Gary. Atkinson was shocked to see Newcomer Edmondson beat him in the primary, force a runoff with a tiny plurality of 427. Atkinson and the Gary machine fought wildly to catch up, but they could not match Edmondson's TV moxie or his nonstop attacks on Gary administration corruption. In last week's runoff, Edmondson brewed a high-proof majority of nearly 70%, carried 70 of the 77 counties...
Dean Swift. In New Hamburg, Ont., Walter Haas was arrested for careless driving, explained that he was only trying to catch another speeder to lecture him on safety...
U.C.L.A. Once "not a branch of Berkeley, but a twig," in the recollection of one educator, the University of California at Los Angeles has begun to catch up with Berkeley in capacity (16,081 students last fall). In some areas, U.C.L.A. Chancellor Raymond B. Allen declares, his school surpasses Berkeley in academic excellence. Added to the university in 1919, 46 years after Berkeley started classes, the school has a less finished look, a bigger parking problem and a less famed faculty, jealously compares honors won (1958 Guggenheims: eleven for U.C.L.A., 19 for Berkeley...
...began to develop oil-pressure trouble. Hawthorn nursed it carefully, hung on in second place, lost precious seconds when he had to pull into the pits for extra oil. Though he then began to pick up time on Collins' speeding Ferrari, it was too late to catch...
Reel McCoy. Near Hyannis, Mass., Surf Fisherman George Vasquez got a firm strike, braced for battle, slowly played his catch to shore, landed a live, 70-in., rubber-flippered male skindiver...