Word: catchingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Writing and filing have been catch-as-catch-can; the Western Union press representative, Harold Griffin, has lent his shoulders as a desk at an airport, has stood holding a typewriter while a reporter banged away...
...catch the impulse buyers, many makers have started setting these eyecatching albums on racks in supermarkets and variety stores, hoping that the housewife who hears a song over the air just before she goes out to shop will pick it up along with the groceries. An average record rack in a supermart grosses about $50 to $75 a week...
...Your Guts Will Ache." Despite his habitual wordiness, Wolfe could catch the feel of a place in a single line. To Elizabeth Nowell, his literary agent and the editor of this volume, he described the Midwest as "fat as a hog and so fertile you felt that if you stuck a fork in the earth the juice would spurt." Brooklyn was a "vast sprawl upon the face of the earth, which no man alive or dead has yet seen in its foul, dismal entirety...
...home, he thirsted for the far cities of the world; when abroad, he longed for home. From London in November he wrote: "If you have sat in the parlor reeking with its gravedamp chill, if then you go out into the steaming air into a street of villas, catch your bus and ride home through vast areas of drab brick, lightened by an occasional pub in which you see a few sodden wretches mournfully ruminant over a glass of bitter beer-if you have gone through this, then, my boy . . . your guts will ache with passion for the Happy Land...
Thus within a six-month period all three major university presidents in Cambridge have said their schools are in very serious financial straits, and all have said that very sizeable amounts were necessary merely to "catch up" with present needs...