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Word: caught (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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PRISCILLA COOK ruefully contemplates the probability of being caught with her bands down next Saturday, before the weekend football crowd...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Terrier's Twirler Tearful as Band Rebuffs Blondes, Sticks to Music | 10/1/1947 | See Source »

Florida officially totted up a casualty list of twelve dead and seven missing. In addition, a Negro was shot to death by a white man who said he caught him looting a windowless Miami liquor store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEATHER: Two-Punch Emma | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

Early on the fifth day, just after New York's skyscrapers caught the shine of a bright blue autumn morning, teletypes clacked in all police stations, ordering flags flown at half-mast. Signal gongs in all firehouses began beating out the 5-5-5-5 rhythm which heralds the death of firemen and of great public servants. Newspapers began spilling off the presses with the black headline: LAGUARDIA DEAD...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Little Flower | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

Just as he was beginning to catch on as a wisecracking Buffalo disc jockey, the Army caught up with him. He was put into a G.I. entertainment unit trailing Benny and Hope around the Pacific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Out in Left Field | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

...style of skirt was described as dangerous, unflattering, expensive, and an annoyance to wear. Miss Manuellian caught her heel in the hem of one and all but fell down a flight of stairs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cliffe Girls Don't Like Hobble Skirts, but... | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

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