Word: catchingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government hand-outs to farmers, but rather in individual initiative in establishing cooperative action. When his views became apparent early in his term, Senator Kerr predicted that he would cause the Republicans to be defeated in the 1954 elections. The title of an article, "Elder Benson's Going to Catch It" in the Saturday Evening Post proved prophetic...
...next five to seven years, he declared, Soviet industry would "fully satisfy . . . footwear and fabric requirements." In ten or twelve years there would be an end to Russia's acute housing shortage. Best of all, "the Soviet Union in the next 15 years can not only catch up with the U.S. in the production of basic items but also outstrip it." Some Khrushchev estimates of Russia's 1972 production: steel, 110 to 132 million tons; oil, 2.4 to 2.7 billion barrels; coal, 715 to 825 million tons; electric power, 800 to 900 billion...
...wigs. Suddenly a voice bellowed in Japanese over the village's loudspeaker: "Dolphins!" Departing radically from the script, the male extras quickly put to sea in Huston's rented sampans while the women took off their film kimonos and excitedly awaited the return of their men. Net catch for the inscrutable villagers: 270 dolphins worth $3,500 in the seafood market. Net loss to the scrutable Huston (who filmed the unscheduled slaughter for the celluloidal hell of it): four men's wigs, a half day and $15,000 in shooting time...
...even heard of TV, and when Lowell ran off the "rushes" for some native chiefs, they were "utterly bored." This week Thomas put U.S. viewers to the test with the first of seven new color travelogues on CBS. Gleeful headhunters waded shoulder-high in scummy New Guinea swamps to catch crocodiles with their bare hands; the barebreasted "debutantes of Kambaramba" skimmed along opal waters in narrow canoes at breathtaking speeds, and Headline-Hunter Thomas appeared every few feet to remind viewers of the "increasing perils." There were hackle-raising scenes of wizened, bedizened village elders carving tribal designs into...
...Yankeeland, where Mary Craig Kimbrough went to Miss Finch's school in Manhattan, all sorts of things other than magnolia hung heavy in the air, notably suffragists, single-taxers and Socialists. It was a Red dead sea full of poor fish dreaming of a bookless future. The biggest catch in it was Upton Sinclair, most renowned of muckrakers. whose novel The Jungle had assaulted the citadels of the Chicago meatpackers with the near-violence of a near-vegetarian. The book had been intended as an attack on porkpacking capitalists; actually it made the U.S. not sick of capitalism...