Word: catchingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...questions rolled loudly out, it soon became obvious that the President's hearing had been acute enough all along to catch the misgivings around the nation about the size of his budget. Asked about the steady rise in the cost of living, he seized the occasion to talk about the part played by Government spending. "Now for every purpose that was provided for, in the budget, I still am in favor . . . [but] I do think that we can vary the speed . . ." Then he disclosed that he was making "investigations through the Cabinet and other responsible officers to see whether...
After Vasa left, other fugitives arrived with word of Christian's massacre. Aroused at last, the peasants sent their fastest skiers to catch Vasa. These couriers stopped him only 20 miles from the border, the present site of Sälen. Now the Vasa Run commemorates his return, the start of the revolution that freed Sweden...
Almost before little Jim learned to walk, father taught him to play ball. Every day after school he made the boy run. slide, throw, catch until his hands hung dead on his wrists. "We're going for the big leagues, boy," he would mutter fiercely, and the child would nod fiercely in agreement. At 17 Jim was a spectacular outfielder whose all-round talents won the state championship for his high-school team; but his father was never satisfied. "How'd I do, dad?" Jim asked anxiously after playing a prodigious game. And father implacably replied...
...gypsy) the boy called him. The two were inseparable, but very little else was safe within a rope's length of that savage young fighter. He charged the chickens, butted the bucket, larked with the laundry; when the time for branding came, it took seven good men to catch the black yearling and four to hold him down...
...excellent Dartmouth basketball team, which is the defending Ivy League champion and has amassed a 17-6 record this season, still has the mathematical possibility of tying Yale for this year's title. But, the Indians cannot do much by themselves to catch the Bulldogs...