Word: catchup
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...ones) have scarcely caught up with the 20th century, but diplomatic politeness makes it non-U to refer to these countries as "backward" or even "underdeveloped." To close the word gap U.N. delegates have developed a dictionary of discretion. Some euphemisms: Less privileged, less developed, developing, emerging, have-not, catchup, lowincome, needy, "poorest third" (used by Secretary-General U Thant), dependent, recipient and restless. Paul Hoffman, head of the U.N. Special Fund, is popularizing "modernizing nations," which seems to be catching on as the new vogue phrase. A still newer definition advanced by a U.N. correspondent last week: "Since these...
...Uris even retains Hersey's slow device of telling whole sections of the story in the form of journal entries from the diary of a garrulous, intellectual archivist. If the color tone of Hersey's book was documentary grey, the hue of Uris' novel is stage catchup, the kind of theatricality that demeans the suffering that the book is meant to dignify...
...last reel, the lead flies and the catchup spectacularly splatters...
Felix was made of sterner stuff. When he went to work as a restaurant bus boy in Houston, he started with the word "catchup," painfully taught himself to speak, read and write excellent English. Today, at 54, Felix Tijerina owns a chain of thriving Texas restaurants, is president of the nationwide League of United Latin American Citizens. But civic-minded Restaurateur Tijerina has not stopped there. In his spare time, busy as a platoon of pedagogues, he has launched an assault on the language barrier. By last week Tijerina had worked out a method that may spread among Spanish-speaking...
Brought in to reform Montana State Prison at Deer Lodge after political appointees had mismanaged their way into a riot in 1957 and a sit-down strike in 1958, able Warden Floyd E. Powell, 46, gave convicts a break. He put salt, pepper, mustard and catchup on the mess-hall tables, instituted TV-watching hours, worked hard to shape up the grim, turreted brick buildings built...