Word: catchingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prime Catch. Goya's Muse is not only one of his best, but for years was also his least-known painting. He painted the young Marquesa about 1804, when she was one of the leading lights of proud Spanish intellectual circles and a member of the group that welcomed the Duke of Wellington as a national hero when he arrived to drive out Napoleon's troops. The victorious Wellington returned to London in 1814, carrying hundreds of gifts showered upon him by the grateful Spanish. Among them was the Muse. For generations it hung almost forgotten in impressive...
Adult platypuses are set in their ways, so Fleay decided to catch young ones and condition them to human company before committing them to The Bronx. During the breeding season, female platypuses dig long tunnels into the banks of Australian streams, and lay their soft eggs in leaf-lined chambers at the ends. When the young platypuses hatch, they grow fast and fat by licking the milk that exudes from pores on their mother's belly. They begin to come out of their burrows in January and start life on their...
Double Splash. After getting a rare permit from the Australian government to catch platypuses, which are rigidly protected, Fleay made 22 sorties from his home in West Burleigh, Queensland. Tramping along the streams in a moving cloud of mosquitoes, he watched for the ripples stirred by swimming platypuses and listened for the characteristic double splash they make when they hit the water. In likely places he set funnel-mouthed box traps, caught a few adult platypuses and lots of eels and catfish...
...points and the championship. ¶ Winter-book bettors got some new form to fret over when Kentucky Derby hopefuls went to the post in both Florida and New York. Artfully steered by Champion Jockey Willie Hartack, Calumet Farm's Tim Tarn worked his way between horses to catch lightly favored Lincoln Road and win Gulfstream's Florida Derby by half a length. At Jamaica, Elkcam Stable's Hubcap just stole the Swift Stakes from Warner Stable's Levelation by a dirty nose...
...Author Dos Passes' power to describe places and incidents. The Great Days has fine sketches of World War II and a sharply drawn portrait of the fallen Ro wandering the streets of Havana and maundering of the days when "there were all the fish in the sea to catch, all the whisky in all the pubs to drink, all the grand guys in the world to be friends with." There is a certain poignancy, however vague, about Ro, a man out of step with his time and himself, reduced to dropping yesterday's names...