Word: caught
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what kind of an American? Said Tom Dewey (whose campaign, while dull by previous standards, perhaps caught the spirit of the times better than most people yet realized): "I assert that human beings are not identical-that no human being is common-that we are all-every single one of us-uncommon people. We are separate individuals whose human differences in talent, in religious faith, in purpose and achievement, enrich our communities and are to be gloried...
...Heavyweight Champ Joe Louis, who early in the campaign had contributed money to Henry Wallace's Progressives, hustled over to G.O.P. Manhattan headquarters to offer his support to Dewey in person, missed him, then caught up with the candidate in Grand Central Station. "Hello, stranger," cried Dewey, thrusting out his hand. "I wish you luck," said Joe, with careful regard for the candidate's bursitis...
...Good Neighbor Mexico was hopping mad, and the U.S. was caught with its hand in the jam jar. The list of U.S. and Mexican labor, immigration, health and customs laws that had been fractured would be as long as a rebozo (traditional shawl of Mexico's Indian women). Worst of all, from the Mexican point of view, responsible U.S. officials had outrageously violated the signed agreement of Feb. 21, 1948, designed to control the flow of seasonal labor and protect Mexican workers from exploitation and prejudice in the U.S. (The February agreements barred bracero labor in Texas because...
...were snatched out of the air from across the city by a gadget called "Ultrafax"* and reproduced on a moving photographic film. The transmission took two minutes and 21 seconds. Impresario of the event was David Sarnoff, president of the Radio Corporation of America. Not a man to be caught in understatement, Sarnoff compared the importance of Ultrafax to that of splitting the atom...
...yard pass from Ralph Maloney to Rick Hudner clicked for Harvard in the second quarter. Hudner caught the ball on the B.U. 40 and went in for the TD, making the halftime score...