Word: catchingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...m.p.h. was a Speno rail-grinding train. Six feet out from the last car was mounted a camera on a makeshift brace of 2 by 6 planks and spikes. Behind the camera a 6-ft.-5-in., 250-lb. man trotted along the ties, triggering the camera to catch the brilliant constellations of sparks thrown off by the rail grinders...
...Colorado freshman, unseen by her mother since 1951. Actress Bergman later chatted affectionately by long-distance phone with her daughter. Serene in a handsome mink coat, Ingrid doffed it for TV cameramen, then held tape-recorded interviews in French, Italian, Swedish and German, after which she dashed away to catch a My Fair Lady matinee. Next day the hectic weekend and award festivities were over, and Ingrid, unruffled despite the raucous cries of flacks, newsmen and admirers, boarded a Paris-bound plane. Would she stay longer next time? "The wind blows this way and that," she had said earlier...
...opponents are out to show themselves more eager to reunify Germany than he is. Adenauer's Socialist rivals (whose leader Erich Ollenhauer is going to Washington too) have switched their talk from Marx to marks to catch West Germany's huge prosperity vote, and are seeking to show themselves not so dependent on the Atlantic alliance as Adenauer is. Opinion polls indicate that they are giving Adenauer's Christian Democrats a close race-so close, in fact, that a third party seems quite likely to tip the scales in forming Germany's new government next September...
...could slash through the pituitary itself. In 1956 Andersen retrieved 871 pituitaries from 898 blue and fin whales, got a bonus of half a bottle of rum for every 50 glands. (On other ships, an estimated 30,000 more whale pituitaries were gathered.) An average season's catch of pituitaries will bring the owners of one ship little more than $2,000, but says a spokesman, "our policy is waste not, want not-particularly for medical purposes...
...Game Preserve. In Cleveland, cops surprised 40 men playing cards in an 8-by-10 ft. room, bagged two packs of cards and the 17 gamblers who couldn't squeeze past the door or dive through the window, later released their catch on insufficient evidence after they examined the cards, discovered they were printed in Spanish, decided it would be impossible to explain the game to the judge...