Word: catchingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Suddenly the bomb unhinged, dropped through the fragile bomb-bay doors, which flapped open, fell out of the B-47. Somehow Kulka managed to catch hold of something-he cannot remember what it was-and hung on for his life in the empty bomb bay in the whistling wind. Back in the flight cabin, Koehler heard a rumble, and Copilot Charles Woodruff idly noticed a shock wave radiating on the ground. "Just like a concussion wave from a bomb," Woodruff told himself. Then, with a shock, he realized what had happened. Captain Koehler closed the bomb-bay doors and reported...
Across one-sixth of the world's land surface, the dictatorship of the Soviet proletariat campaigned for re-election last week on a platform of peace, bread, and four more years of all-out effort to "catch up with the West." In snowbound Lettish villages, in orange-scented Georgian watering places, in Uzbek desert oases, the same red-and-white signs marked the local "agitpunkt" campaign headquarters for the 1,364 unopposed candidates running for election to the Supreme Soviet. At rallies everywhere candidates, including the country's top bosses, blared campaign promises as if they really needed...
...profits in 1958: "My feeling is that recession within bounds is healthy. We have been in a boom economy since 1946. The pause will make us more efficient and competitive after setting new records for capital expansion. We need a breather for the economy to catch up with us. It will be healthy if it runs a year...
...Francisco's KPIX pioneered a campaign for a rapid-transit system in the bay area, plugged it with helicopter shots of traffic jams, views of a comfortable, studio-built commuter-train interior, even bought radio time to catch the ear of harassed motorists...
...Wilder for the first time at his party.) A demanding but undogmatic critic, Massachusetts-born, Harvard-educated ('17) Atkinson writes his views in pencil in a neat hand on a ruled yellow pad. Against one of journalism's toughest deadlines-he usually has barely an hour to catch an edition after the first-night curtain falls-he sends his polished copy through in one-paragraph "takes." When a review is finished, he reads the proof but seldom changes a word...