Word: caught
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would have to be used in San Jose that he kept three holy candles (especially blessed at the Shrine of the Virgin of Suyate, patroness of Central American generals) in his headquarters. Whenever bad news came, he lit one; when good news came, he blew it out. Once he caught me staring at him and snapped: 'Only got three. Can't afford to waste...
...Caught between U.S. free enterprise and British socialism, Bizonia's economy has combined the worst features of each. Its labor has no incentive to work; business has none to produce. Bizonia's military governors had a choice between free enterprise and the sort of strictly planned economy that the Russians have in their zone. Meanwhile, the displays at the Hanover Fair were only samples of a stalled production machine...
...Salsbury's powerful medicine eventually caught on. When a medicine man objected to inoculations against typhoid, a Salsbury assistant showed him some contaminated water under a microscope: "See those bugs? They'll kill all of you if you don't let me help." The medicine man was impressed. Fascinated by X rays, the Indians began to troop to the hospital to have their pictures taken. Mission schoolchildren, envious of the attention paid to any classmate who had his appendix out, demanded to be operated...
...vision, John one day found "in the grass beside him ... a laughing brown girl of about his own age, and she had no clothes on. 'It was me you wanted,' said the brown girl. 'I am better than your silly Islands.' And John rose and caught her, all in haste, and committed fornication with her in the wood...
...attractive and resourceful children, at first appearance, living the anarchic, hand-to-mouth life of most of Italy during the chaotic period between the Italian and German surrenders. Then they become front men for Giuseppe's older brother, in a small-time black market deal. They are caught and locked up for questioning. If they had informed on their elders promptly, they would probably have been released; but courage and their loyalty to Giuseppe's brother forbids informing. They are caught into the awful, rickety rollers of the State, and there they are ruined...