Word: caught
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decades as a professional burglar, gaunt, nervous Steve Rumnoch had done nicely at his specialty-breaking into houses. His score: 800 jobs, no arrests. But he had been caught four times for breaking into stores, had spent 15 years in prison. Life behind walls was intolerable to him and he grew morose and hopeless in "stir." Nevertheless during his last stretch, 34 months at the Iowa State Penitentiary, he forced himself to plan a better life for the future...
Even once restless Yoshio Kodaira, who last year was convicted of raping 40 women and murdering eight, seemed to have caught the general spirit. "I am fortunate," he said as he marched to the gallows last week, "to be able to die on such a calm and peaceful...
...three days of business since the opening of the name-clearance bureau, about 40 sellers' names have been given to seekers of Army game tickets. Two would be economists were caught taking advantage of the high demand by trying to get more than the list price for their small supply of tickets. Council agents phoned both and warned them of a newly adopted plan to "blacklist" scalpers and publish their names in, a Council bulletin...
...windows and into which, with the door ajar, the shafted sun lay in a lengthened arch of blazing sovereigns. Over a corn bin on which he had packed last autumn's ferns lay Paddy snoring ... a web strung from one lock of hair back onto the sill above . . . Caught in the reflection of spring sunlight this cobweb looked to be made of gold as did those others which by working long minutes spiders had drawn from spar to spar of the fern bedding on which his head rested. It might have been almost that O'Conor...
Sanctuary. In Rock Island, Ill., Martin Kohn was caught drunk riding on the town water wagon...