Word: caught
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...imagination (like that of the world) had been caught by something he obviously did not fully understand. What a world organization might do was obviously worth all the nickels (and all the zlotys, francs, rupees and dollars) ever minted. That, however, was another question, and one frequently confused with what the United Nations was actually doing. Was it worth Sammy's nickel...
...judgment and her own competence. She saw the ceremony, hurried back to Fleet Street in a Standard car. Cool and unhurried as a good rewrite-man, she filled short sheets of copy paper in longhand which were snatched away for typing and setting. In a few sentences, she caught the mood of a memorable day: "It might seem folly to have a royal wedding in winter, but it was wise enough. The people are tired of sadness, they need a party; they are tired of hate, they need to think of love; they are tired of evil, they need...
Thirty years later, the mission was taken up by a man who had played the organ between movies at Manhattan's Capitol Theater. Jacob Maurice Coopersmith, a stubby, dedicated, bustling man with thick eyeglasses, caught the fever too. He caught it quite by accident. At Harvard, working on a Ph.D. thesis, he had trouble finding his way through Chrysander's 100 volumes of the Handel "complete" works: they had no thematic index. He decided to make one. After two years at it he had caught up with Chrysander, but had accounted for only two-thirds of Handel...
Their narrow escapes were uncanny. Lewis tumbled from a 300-ft. cliff and caught himself 20 feet from the top. A private was thrown from his horse almost atop a grizzly, hit it over the head with his rifle butt and escaped. Their escapes were even narrower than they knew. They built their blockhouse at Fort Mandan, some 1,100 miles up the Missouri, just before the Sioux held a war council. After they crossed the Rockies and were resting, exhausted, before descending the Pacific slope, the Nez Perce Indians decided to wipe them out. The Nez Perces were dissuaded...
...Majesty's representative. Mr. Bennett faced down the sullen hillmen, stopping the show, and Kalyanu helped to see him through. Later, Mr. Bennett took Kalyanu along on an exploratory ascent of the high Himalayan range. On a glassy snow slope at 15,000 feet the two men were caught in a cloud. They fell, but broke their fall and were not killed. But Mr. Bennett would never have made it back to camp without Kalyanu...