Word: catchingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...salt from Philadelphia, who served as round-the-world navigator on his father's schooner and as a lieutenant commander in World War II, Baker still finds that every cover story requires a different trim of the sails. The main job in his Grace Kelly cover was to catch the cool, white-gloved elegance of a new kind of Hollywood star. With André Malraux it was to define the place of an elusive literary and political figure in the complicated world of contemporary French intellectualism. Other cover stories have been fast-breaking narratives...
...tall chap at the far end of the table stood up. "It was a pretty bad day when we went," he said. "They have seven nets with different colored bands for the birds they catch. We got just two the whole day long--a Junco and a Tree Sparrow. We saw another one with a colored band, but we couldn't tell what color...
...sudden change of plans, Red China's Premier Chou En-lai this week postponed a scheduled visit to Nepal and cut short his tour of India to rush back to Peking. Probable explanation: before his trip to Moscow next week Chou had to catch up on an unexpected shift in the Chinese Communist line...
...moving, made a break of their own by recovering a Tech fumble. Quarterback Corny Salvaterra alternated with Fullback Ralph Jelic to roll up yardage. Late in the third quarter Salvaterra scored-still moving the hard way, through the middle of the line. But there was no time to catch up. All autumn long the Panthers had grown fat on heartstopping, last-half rallies. "This time," said Coach Michelosen as he looked at the 21-14 score, "we coughed up the ball once too often...
...children and adults who catch it, German measles (rubella) is almost invariably a trivial infection with slight fever, sore throat and fast-disappearing rash. But contracted by a woman during pregnancy, especially in the first three months, rubella is often hideously deforming or fatal to her unborn child...