Word: catchingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...users' plan of the Western powers seemed truly to catch Nasser unawares. "Instead of continuing the game," the tennis-playing young dictator complained to a friend, "Eden has picked up the ball and walked off the court." In uncharacteristic haste Nasser ordered his Washington ambassador to protest to John Foster Dulles that the plan "means war"-just as Dulles was about to explain to his press conference that that was precisely what it did not mean. Then, in his first important-if insufficient-shift toward compromise, Nasser let it be known through the Indian government that he would...
...before that the U.S. will have to play the most significant role in any solution that might be reached. "The gun is loaded, aimed, and the finger is on the trigger," said a neutral observer in crisis-torn Cairo last week, adding gratefully, "but the U.S. is the safety catch...
...cuckolded husband broke into their bedroom on the dark midnight of Oct. 16, 1590, and slew the lovers, or had them slain. Later, convinced that the second child was not his, he shook the cradle so ferociously that the infant could not catch her breath and suffocated. Thereupon Gesualdo settled into a life of remorse and debauchery-he was so beset by evil "demons" that he had himself whipped daily-out of which came some of the world's most remarkable music...
Counterattack. Once they stopped to catch their breath, Muncey and Rhodes mounted a counterattack. Miss Pepsi...
...miles of shoreline and harbors make him sensitive to the merchant marine, he sponsored the bill providing that 50% of postwar EGA foreign aid be carried abroad in U.S. ships. He has worked ably to improve air service to the Northwest, business opportunities for Washington pulp mills, the catch for the salmon fishermen. Warren Magnuson's name is on no momentous legislation of the last twelve years, but this omission does not bother him. As Maggie sees it, one of his values is this: "The State of Washington would have to wait about twelve years to get themselves...