Word: caught
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unquestionably, Marshall had inherited some of his suspicion of the Nationalists from his great friend, War Secretary Stimson (see Historical Notes). But for years Chiang Kai-shek had stood implacably in Asia against the Chinese Communists. George Marshall had caught a glimpse of the same enemy that Chiang had long faced, but he still did not recognize him as such...
...secession caught the I.L.W.U.'s leftist leaders in Hawaii by surprise. Jack Hall, Bridges' lieutenant in Hawaii, was in San Francisco, presumably talking strike strategy with his boss. Union organizers scampered to Hilo, tried to persuade the 4,000 secessionists to reconsider their stand. But at week's end the rebels were standing firm, and the revolt in the canebrakes threatened to spread. If it did, Harry Bridges might be in for an entirely different sort of war from the one he had planned for Hawaii...
...position of Henry Agard Wallace was much like that of the man who pursued a girl until she caught him. As far back as April, he had flirted publicly with the idea of a third party in '48. He had carried on a cautious courtship all over the U.S. Last week she turned on him and he got a definite proposal...
...once have studied with Leonardo da Vinci, for though his drawing is less acute than Leonardo's, it has the same sinuous elegance-like a strand of hair afloat on the wind. But unlike Leonardo, he never painted a monster or a mask of rage or caught a tempest in his brush. Luini was limited and narrow, but like a narrow window standing open...
...Ledge, off the Rhode Island coast, fishermen caught bottles of 20-year-old Scotch whiskey in their nets. They had found an area where prohibition rum runners had dumped their cargo when hard pressed by the Coast Guard...