Word: caught
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outside the conference hall the pickets massed in angry clots and put on a show that caught the attention of many a delegate, unseemly though it became at times. Crippled veterans were paraded in wheelchairs; elderly women knelt in the street to recite the Lord's Prayer. Pickets yelled: "Why don't you go back to Russia, you stinking Commies...
...flickering light of a primitive lamp. At the sight of the treasure, some villagers bowed down; some wept with happiness; others caressed the sacred object. For decades the Karen Baptists remained a persecuted religious minority. As late as 1851, one Burman ruler threatened to shoot the first Karen he caught who was able to read...
...printing two stories to get around the English law, got the point. So did Scotland Yard. It warned the Mirror and other London editors to watch what they were saying. Next day the Mirror took another chance; it told readers that the "vampire killer" -not identified-had been caught...
...Diego. One of them, after Diego soured on Stalin, was Leon Trotsky. For almost two years (1938-39), Trotsky lived as the Riveras' guest, writing his life of Stalin, and awaiting his assassins. It was not until 15 months after Trotsky had moved out that the assassins caught up with him (TIME, Sept...
...good many of the inexperienced caught up with the old hands early in the winter," Love said, "but I'm often disappointed in the work some of the boys do outdoors after looking so good indoors...