Word: caught
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...journalism's best-known pundit left his camp in Bernard, Me. a little while ago and returned to his ivy-covered home in Washington. He did not have any fresh-caught fish. What he had was a fat, prickly and impressive essay on U.S. foreign policy. Looking a little old, with heavy pouches under his eyes, 58-year-old Walter Lippmann-author of 19 books, New York Herald Tribune columnist since 1931-sat down to put together his thesis, which he called The Cold War. Two secretaries hovered beside him. Western Union stood by to pick up his copy...
...Aspiring to follow in the footsteps of Brooklyn-born Matador Sidney Franklin, young Julian Faria, also of Brooklyn, made his debut as a bullfighter in Reynosa, Mexico. As his first bull charged, a horn caught in the buttons of his pink, skintight pants, ripped them open. The crowd laughed. Commented an aficionado: "Ay! Esos tipos de Brooklyn...
...once been covered with violets. He talked of his mother's bed of lilies-of-the-valley. A giant tulip tree in the grove behind the house had grown so much he failed to recognize it. While he was wandering about the grounds, four-year-old Marilyn Kielbasa caught up with him, stuck a pink carnation in his lapel...
Specialists contend that most types of cancer, if caught early enough, can be cured.* The big problem is spotting cancer in time. Every year, 30,000 people in the U.S. discover that they have cancer; at least one-third discover it so late that they are doomed to die within the year...
Schedules were another wartime casualty, particularly for the football team. When the Crimson eleven returned to active duty last fall, many familiar opponents were caught without an open date, and it is hoped that such Ivy League rivals as Penn, Columbia, and Army will be worked in soon again...