Word: catchingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back to Italy, explained: "I'm tired." In Hollywood, irked by a long-term contract with Columbia Pictures that calls for a humiliating $1,250 a week, straw-haired Kim Novak refused to show up for a film, was suspended by her exasperated bosses just in time to catch a hopperful of publicity as her latest film, Jeanne Eagels, opened in Manhattan...
...vaccination program against poliomyelitis is a dismal flop. With this year's number of polio cases (2,700 so far) reported mounting rapidly toward what might well prove to be the highest figures ever, vaccinations were hopelessly behind schedule. There was no chance that the program could catch up unless it got a shot in the arm with massive imports of U.S. vaccine - and these the Ministry of Health flatly refused to consider...
...arraigned, occasionally rubbed the handcuffs on his wrists, momentarily allowed his faded blue eyes to show a flash of animation as his gaze darted about the courtroom. Alert U.S. deputy marshals hovered close by, and outside the courtroom shirtsleeved FBI men patrolled the corridors. The U.S. had a valuable catch to protect: the prisoner at the bar was Rudolf Ivanovich Abel, 55. Moscow-born colonel of Soviet intelligence, and possibly the most important Soviet spy ever caught...
...first collision and 64 in the second. Theoretically, the first collision should have produced more-not fewer-mesons than the second. Hunting for an explanation, Minnesota scientists are still puzzling over their plates, frankly admit that they do not yet know the full significance of their big catch. "At this high energy," says Physics Professor Edward P. Ney, "I'd be surprised if something new didn't happen...
...living index spurted two percentage points during the following three months. After three months U.S. Steel realized "we might as well have tried to stop an express train with a peashooter. So we had to rescind our price action, increase the pay of our workers and try to catch up with the [price] parade we had fallen so far behind." Perversely, the cost of living then declined...