Word: catchingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...confidential squad that reports directly to Kennedy, spies on the rest of the department with Minifones, movie cameras and tape recorders to catch crooked cops in acts of dishonesty and keep the rest of the department as close as possible at the side of the angels...
...prize block, which has just been cleaned of its incrustations, shows the debated Gallic harvester. It has two wheels and a comb of teeth, just as Pliny said, and a box to catch the heads of grain. In front, carrying a shovel-like implement, is a laborer. The only important deviation from the Pliny version is that the motive power appears to be a mule instead of oxen...
...write such a record. His project: to write a biographical sketch of every man who ever went to Harvard. Serenely oblivious to the Malthusian truth that Harvard men beget sons who go to Harvard, and that a long, geometric progression of begats had already outbegotten his best efforts to catch up. Historian Sibley set to work. He was confident, he wrote, that although his research might turn up "cases of iniquity which may have escaped punishment," it would nevertheless show the "worth and influence" of Harvard graduates...
...four years ago, competitors have complained that she was nothing but a rule beater. She was designed, said her detractors, to take advantage of loopholes in the ocean-racing handicap rule, getting such a large time advantage over sounder, abler craft with conventional deep keels that no one could catch her. In response to this complaint, the Cruising Club of America revised its calculations, sent Finisterre off for Bermuda with a shortened time advantage...
Held up by Middlesex traffic while driving Princess Anne to Windsor Great Park, bandanna-topped Queen Elizabeth II checked her right of way like any Levittown housewife meeting the 5:12, later dressed up in jeweled finery to catch the looth anniversary concert...