Word: caught
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suddenly a dark bay colt came charging down the center of the track. The devil's-red silks on his jockey were Calumet's. Ben Jones's long shot, at 16 to 1, caught tired Capot inside the Sixteenth Pole, and won by three lengths. With a pace-forcing assist from Capot, Ponder had won the Kentucky Derby in much the same way his sire, Pensive, had won it five years before-and in identical time...
...contest between bomber and fighter is almost as old as air warfare, and the balance has never stayed in the same position for long. A good bomber may get superiority, but it has never held it; fighter designers, occasionally behind in development, have always caught up. General McNarney thinks that the great 6-36, the Air Force's heavy bomber, can now cope with fighters and can hold its advantage for a while. Though much slower (about 400 m.p.h. in emergencies) than fighters, the 6-36 flies at an altitude where jet engines lose much of their power. Further...
...things had turned out, hasty Happy Chandler seemed to be as much on the hook as Lippy Leo had appeared to be when Heckler Boysen caught up with him in short centerfield...
...died court poet; from an ancient servant he heard of the historic day when Sir Walter Raleigh, fresh from the New World, threw the ladies into fits by puffing a pipe of tobacco. From here & there, Aubrey gleaned tales about a Stratford butcher's boy who was caught poaching; in fact, John Aubrey was one of William Shakespeare's first biographers...
Last week they ran a torchlight parade through the streets of Rutland, called on citizens to pitch in. Rutlanders caught the spirit. An automobile dealer, who had agreed to match one undergraduate team's collections, handed over $103; a waitress gave her day's tips of $1.17. Some landladies of student boarding houses offered a month's free rent if the money were given to the college. As the local radio station and newspaper spread the story, more kept pouring...