Word: caught
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conditioners and the movie projector blacked out several times. But luxury-starved Britons cared little for such minor hitches. At the end of two days under a perfect summer sky, a svelte passenger stood by the ship's side inhaling the soft night air. Suddenly she caught sight of a dockside below littered with trucks, bales and dingy trains. "Oh, my God," she exclaimed, "how ghastly to see the Southern Railway again...
William L. Putnam '45 and David Michael, Jr. '48, returned to Tatla Lake in the northwest Canadian province to relate how Shiverick, of Lowell House and Cleveland, Ohio, had been caught with three companions in a slide on July 22 in the so-called Scimitar glacier, some 150 miles northwest of Vancouver...
...Strangler") Lewis was caught in a metaphysical headlock. The 59-year-old wrestling champ of the '20s and early '30s, down 50 pounds to a lean, keen 275, was roaring simultaneously through his resuscitated mat career (his $10 million earnings had all gone, somehow) and a series of lectures on "the constructive way of living." To the Santa Barbara (Calif.) Lions Club Strangler revealed: "Mental hygiene is the coming thing. . . . We can't reach a peaceful world if we instill the will to fight in our youngsters." But then, "by overcoming one obstacle, one gains strength...
...humid humor, Westbrook Pegler, who writes for Hearst, teed off on Ed ("Little Old New York") Sullivan, who writes for the tabloid New York Daily News. One of Ed's columns had caught Peg's bloodshot eye. It "consisted of an open letter to his secretary," wrote Pegler. "This was an unusual device. Usually his secretary writes to him and in this way is able to congratulate him on remarkable feats of exclusive journalism and prophecy and thank him for kindnesses to others which he might not have the indelicacy to mention, although modesty is not his worst...
Cause & Effect. In White Plains, N.Y., a cop handed Motorist Louis Mazaferro a ticket for speeding at 54 m.p.h.; when Mazaferro nervously dashed away at 58 m.p.h., the cop caught him and handed him another...