Word: caught
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Craft in a Cave. Shipped north, Greening bolted from the train during an air attack. Winter caught him on the Yugoslav border and he holed up in a cave with two New Zealanders. To pass the long days they whittled statuettes and model airplanes, invited kids from the nearby villages to come look. One night a German patrol looked in too and recaptured them...
...next minute, Hollenbeck caught PM and the Daily Worker redhanded filching an item (which later proved erroneous) from the columns of their archenemy, the Daily News...
...like fresh water, and established itself in Lake Ontario. In 1921 it appeared in Lake Erie, presumably detouring Niagara Falls via the Welland Canal. Step by step it pioneered the Lakes, reaching Lake St. Clair in 1930 and Lake Michigan in 1936. This year, the first lamprey was caught on the U.S. side of Lake Superior...
...grow proportionately scarce. First victims are the lake trout, whose small, thin scales cannot resist the lamprey's kiss. In Lake Huron, where lampreys do the most damage, the trout catch last year fell to 41,000 Ibs. (It was 1,750,000 Ibs. in 1939.) Many trout caught showed lamprey scars. When trout get scarce, the lampreys go after rough-scaled perch or even armored sturgeon...
...fifths of Scotch whiskey. It was the largest single shipment in seven years. Britain is planning to increase her Scotch production and exports to boost her dollar balances, and many other such shipments will soon follow. But this prospect brought no cheers from liquor retailers, many of whom are caught with supplies of high-priced Scotch in their cellars...