Word: caught
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...death camp of Jasenovac, Professor Premeru said he saw four quisling executioners, Kojic, Matijevic, Pudic and Gasparic, drinking the blood spouting out of their victims' gashes and licking their blood-stained poniards. Another quisling, Majstrorovic-Filipovic, the inventor of the "cup-and-ball game," caught with his poniard live babies which soldiers threw...
Where People Live. A Russian cannot move anywhere, say to Moscow, without the state's permission; if he is caught without a permit, he is sentenced to hard labor. He cannot even visit places like the Kremlin. I remember the Russian girl I met only once for a few minutes, during which we happened to walk past the Kremlin. Said she: "We Russians envy you foreigners. You can visit the Kremlin. We cannot...
According to reports from its feeble radio, often picked up by "hams," the Kon-Tiki's voyage had been reasonably uneventful. There had been one moderate storm, which did not endanger the buoyant raft. Whales, dolphins and sharks had played around her slowly drifting hulk, and the crew caught lots of fish...
...make enough for a pair of shoes," he says, "and had them half-soled so many times your foot was an inch off the ground." Nourished on hard-won sow belly and corn pone, he swept up in cotton mills, ran errands, jerked sodas and sold papers until he caught the eye of Clarence Saunders, ex-Piggly Wiggly king. When Saunders went broke in 1931, Crouch was in Oakland, Calif, running 44 of his stores...
...well-intentioned but singularly sterile effort to excavate the humanity that pulsates under the drabness of Sunnyside, a railroad-side section of New York City where she lived after her return from Japan. Her characters all live in the same boxlike apartment house, and their humdrum lives shortly become caught up in a naive pattern which is spun without imagination. In this Grand Hotel without grandness, coincidence and sentiment are bigger than life...