Word: catchingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seems," intoned Senator John Mc-Clellan sternly, "that in this dragnet procedure we have caught an assortment of man-eating sharks." It was indeed as forbidding a catch of fish as John McClellan's Senate labor rackets investigating committee has yet snared. One by one last week's school of hoods-including notorious Extortionist John (Johnny Dio) Dioguardi-appeared before the committee in the Senate caucus room and rasped out their Fifth Amendment pleas. But the evidence against them was there nonetheless. It added up to another chapter of the story of how mobsters took over segments...
...absorbing punishment, Hurricane started leaking blood in the first round and was on his knees at the bell. He went down again in the second, again in the ninth. In between, he did some calisthenics, tried a few yards of roadwork to "unlazy" his legs and continued to catch Floyd's furious punches. Midway in the tenth round, Referee Ruby Goldstein called off the bloody farce. While Hurricane was hauled to the hospital to be patched up by a team of urologists, neurologists and a plastic surgeon, Patterson started work for his next fight. In three weeks...
Nick of Time. In Sacramento, Juvenile Officer Robert Dunkeson finally caught a 13-year-old boy heard him admit to 15 burglaries, including five of Dunkeson's house, said: "I had to catch the kid. He was stealing me out of house and home...
...That is, I haven't read the last few issues very carefully. Busy with job. No time to myself. Terrible summer. Was sick with grippe in late June. Just starting to catch up," he explained...
...23rd. She began copying with the Martin Luther King story (Feb. 18), missed the Birdie Tebbetts cover (July 8) because she and her husband (who is president of a Chicago paper company) were on vacation. Many of her blind readers are avid baseball fans, and she plans to catch up on Tebbetts...