Word: caught
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Posse. In Roswell, N. Mex., Ranch-woman Mrs. C. A. Marley strapped on her .38, tracked down and caught the mere male who had stolen her favorite horse, delivered the offender, hog-tied, to the sheriff...
Arms & the Men. There were other tales. Awaiting trial in Baltimore sat one Karl John Eisenhardt and two ex-G.I.s caught last month with 21 machine guns outside Baltimore. Venezuela's Development Minister Perez Alfonso carefully voiced his opinion that the group was fixing to run guns into Venezuela for a revolution to be staged by the political outs. Eisenhardt had served the U.S. Board of Economic Warfare in Caracas back in López Contreras...
...Rose prose, with a base of carnival-barker shrewdness and a pink topping of cotton-candy poetry, has caught the crowd like an inspired midway pitch. Only last week his column caught 17 more papers. By June 10 he expects to close a deal sewing up 3,000 U.S. weekly newspapers. That would put him thousands of readers up on Winchell himself. With no pretense to modesty, Columnist Rose predicts: "I'll be second only to the Bible...
...better than silk in stockings, slips and girdles. Nor did U.S.C.C. mind its economic law. The first silk shipments sold at an average of $9.79 a pound. But as more silk came into the U.S. the auction price skidded until it hit $4.70 last February. Manufacturers who had been caught in the falling market stopped buying. To protect them, U.S.C.C. pegged the price average at $4.70 and guaranteed to keep it there until the end of the year. With this artificially high floor under silk and with good quality Nylon available at $2.55 a pound, high-priced silk has gone...
Said a British psychiatrist, caught red-handed playing hink pink last week with a doctor, a radio writer and a journalist: "It can be frightfully intellectual...