Word: catchingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rigid Program. But nothing has been permitted to interfere with the expedition's rigid program of scientific observations. Teams of scientists leapfrog each other, spurting ahead of the column to set up their instruments, and spurting to catch up when they are left behind. Every ten miles they take cores of snow and ice, sometimes 200 ft. deep. Such cores are like petrified weather: they have layers and particles in them that tell the history of Antarctic centuries...
...upon row, people leaned forward to catch every word, feverishly scribbling in their notebooks. The mesmerizing drone of the theologian lifted them, trance-like, beyond the everyday world of corporeal men and concrete things. It carried them high, high into the tenuous stratosphere of abstraction, where the earth below could be glimpsed only briefly and dimly, as the ponderous metaphysical clouds parted for a moment, then coalesced in still thicker obscurity. Through the shadowy haze, however, they could sense the mammoth struggles that the voice affirmed were raging all around them. From far off they could sometimes catch the sound...
...deferments will still be given in six month periods, and Air Force regulations will preserve the "catch-all" deferments, which state that any ROTC graduate may receive an induction delay because of "financial difficulties...
...Wheels won't catch on this ice. Watch (flooring the accelerator) ZzzzzzeeeeeerrrruuuUUU...
Pass: Well, you know there's something called starting friction; now on this ice here, when you put the car in low gear and step on your pedal, you've got too much oomph under you to catch...