Word: caught
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Captain Dale Armstrong was chosen as an All-East end last fall, primarily for his defensive ability, although last week he caught six passes against Colgate. He may well throw the wrench into Art Valpey's well-oiled ground machine...
...traitor was a bespectacled, wiry, 27-year-old Nisei named Tomoya Kawakita, better known to hundreds of G.I. prisoners as "The Meatball." The son of a California grocer, Kawakita was caught on a visit to Japan by World War II. He threw in his lot with the Japanese. As an interpreter in the prison camp at Oeyama, he taunted G.I. prisoners in their own ball-park English, took savage delight in tormenting them...
This week the most unthinkable event in the comic-strip world happened-apparently. After years of chasing Li'l Abner, busty, bee-yoo-tiful Daisy Mae had caught him on a give-away program. (She had guessed that Li'l Abner was "Mr. Bong" from the sound of a sledge hammer bopping his skull.) At the start of the marriage ceremony last Sunday, Li'l Abner was confident that something would happen to stop it. After all, Joe Btfsplk, the world's worst jinx, was standing by and when he was around, "somethin' awful," like...
...Hand. In Leeds, England, police finally caught up with Burglar Robert Wooldridge, 94, after he had 1) cleared a four-foot wall, 2) jumped off a 14-foot embankment, and 3) scurried off into some bushes...
Harvard football teams always manage to look pretty good in the record books by virtue of a fantastic number of wins they managed to slip over in the 1880's and 1890's, before anyone else caught on to the science of the game...