Word: catchingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This was strong talk between two NATO allies. But for generations 25% of all British fishermen's catch has been taken just beyond the three-mile limit, in the haddock-and cod-crammed waters of the Icelandic shelf. At stake is nothing less than the traditionally cheap fish-'n'-chips fare of the great seafaring nation. Iceland explained it acted only from "the need to conserve" the cod and haddock. Icelanders themselves now net 48% of the catch (up 17% since before the war), and it furnishes 90% of their exports. Biggest customer: Soviet Russia, which last...
...Trade Minister Ludvik Joseps-son is a Communist, and forced the twelve-mile limit through the country's coalition Cabinet against the objection of more NATO-minded ministers. The Soviet ambassador, who has signed agreements with Comrade Josepsson to buy about a third of Iceland's catch, was quick to proclaim Russian support of the new twelve-mile decree. The British Admiralty accordingly let it be known that four new frigates might shortly be added to the arctic fishing protection squadron...
...expected as head Communist to be boss of all Communist ideology too-seemed to be a little miffed at Yugoslav charges that he was a mere "practi-calist," and that international Communism was not generating any new theoretical concepts. Well, asked Khrushchev, how about his plan to catch up with...
Elliott finished the half in 1:59.3. The pace setters faded, and Delany's bobbing stride began to break apart. He looked more and more like a man in a bowler hat trying to catch a tram. Tabori came on to make a brief challenge, but Elliott stayed in command. He had no noticeable finishing kick; he merely ran fast all the way. Coach Cerutty stood at the head of the stretch wildly waving a towel, the signal that there was a chance to break the world's record (3:58). As usual, Herb Elliott's competition...
...students will remember him," the CRIMSON noted, "for the human quality which he never sacrificed for pedagogical catch-word or scholastic obscurity, for his ability to give life to past greatness, and for his capacity for enthusiasm...