Word: caught
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...team will be built around Captain George Hauptfuhrer who set a Crimson all-time scoring record of 398 points last year, and will feature such newcomers as Erv Tomsovic, who caught assistant coach Lloyd Harper's eye during summer workouts, and Walt McCurdy, voted "the outstanding basketball player in Naval athletics" after becoming high scorer for the Iowa Seahawks, Navy national champions...
Roughneck Rocky Graziano is an accomplished shadow-boxer, who has hitherto been able to outpoint the shadows of his own past. This time he dropped his guard and caught one on the chin. Exiled from New York rings eight months ago for not reporting a $100,000 bribe offer, Rocky went off limits to Chicago and won the world's middleweight championship. In 58 fights, he had become the biggest drawing card in boxing, after Joe Louis. Last week, he faced exile from practically all U.S. boxing rings...
...Army for four months during the war. During that time, he picked up cigaret money-sometimes as little as $25-fighting in preliminary bouts. It took the Army a while to catch up with Rocky, perhaps because it was looking for a man named Rocco Barbella (his real name). Caught and court-martialed, Rocky was sentenced to twelve months' hard labor at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and dishonorably discharged. His manager insists that the dishonorable discharge was "suspended" because Rocky behaved so well in jail...
Most such visitors caught on in a few days and trotted along home like good little boys. One who didn't is the hero-or victim-of this novel, mild, baldish Dr. John Jones, Professor of the Assyrio-Bdbylonic, Chaldean, Phoenician, Etruscan and Turkish languages at St. Jude's Theological Seminary...
...Though September traffic was the greatest in the industry's history, the overall prospect for 1947 was still a loss. The airlines were in no shape to boost the sagging airframe industry; they ruefully informed the commission that they had already overbought on new equipment. All had been caught in the squeeze of higher wage, supply and other costs. And postwar traffic was below their high hopes...