Word: caught
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eisenhower was acting more & more like a presidential candidate. After two days of fishing in Wisconsin's Brule River, he had his picture taken with the biggest fish he had ever caught-a 5½-lb. trout. At the Minnesota State Fair in St. Paul, he was snapped taking a folksy bite into a prizewinning apple...
Like a nocturnal creature suddenly caught in the sun, Deferrari recoiled from the wave of questions that followed. When someone asked him what he ate, he replied with octogenarian bluntness: "I ask my bowels. If they need food that will go right through me, I eat fruit. If I'm feeling good, I cook myself a steak...
John always cooks his steak at his old North End family home, where he does not live but goes every evening to prepare his only meal of the day. The house is fenced in and shuttered up. When a reporter caught him at the house last week, John Deferrari gave a quick explanation of his success: "I make good use of my time. I know the other fellow's business better than he does. I'm honest too. . . ." As he talked, he sidled through the iron gate, closed it, snapped the padlock. "I've talked too much...
...Sikhs, clubbed them to death with hockey sticks. An Indian Army courier told how, in the remote Shakirgarh district of Pakistan, a small Hindu military force had found only 1,500 known survivors from a community of 120,000 Sikhs. He estimated that over 100,000 had been butchered, caught between a howling Moslem mob and the flooded Ravi river...
...Little Below the Knee Club members signed a manifesto against any change in the old knee-high style. And in Oildale, Calif., Mrs. Louise Horn gave a timely demonstration of the dangers lurking in the New Look. As she alighted from a bus, her new long, full skirt caught in the door. The bus started up and she had to run a block before the bus stopped and she was freed...