Word: caught
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...until her husband was elected Vice President (although he had previously been New York City Police Commissioner and Governor of New York). In the White House, she managed her family and her husband with serene competence and quiet humor. She improved the White House gardens and its housekeeping. Visitors caught glimpses of her reading to her children, or sewing at an upstairs window. She kept a watchful eye on Teddy, often interceded at state functions with a quiet "Theodore! Theodore!" (The President always meekly protested: "Why, Edie, I was only...
...Here he comes again!" Children who had been playing down the street raised the cry. "Here he comes again!" The Russian lieutenant reappeared. He saw the Americans gathered near his motorcycle, and slipped back out of sight. One block away, in a tree-lined sidestreet, Morrow caught up with him. The lieutenant was now accompanied by a Russian private, whose Tommy gun he carried. Morrow said (in Polish, which the Russian understood): "I am unarmed. I want to find out what's happening here...
...convention time, only a few of Drew's Bay Street backers were around his headquarters in the Chateau Laurier, and fewer still were at the Coliseum. The tall, well-tailored figure of Edward William Bickle, an investment broker and Drew's best friend, caught a bit of the limelight. Notably out of the limelight was another Drew crony and constant adviser, George McCullagh. One of the most powerful Canadian publishers (the Toronto Globe & Mail), McCullagh stayed away from Ottawa lest he scare off Drew supporters who still leaned a bit toward John Bracken's "ordinary man" position...
...York Yankees, the Cleveland Indians, the Boston Red Sox-were neck & neck. The Red Sox thrashed the Yankees,*and then there were two. Jittery Cleveland needed only one game to win, and couldn't win it. On the last day of the season, the Red Sox caught up. The first tie in American League history called for a one-game playoff. Manager Lou Boudreau of Cleveland tried to put on a brave front: "It just means going to Boston a day earlier...
...Caught up in the war, each reacts according to his mold. Diestl is caught in the barbarism and demoralization of the Nazi army. Whitacre gets hold of himself by learning the values of sacrifice in a common, just cause. And Ackerman emerges from a harrowing ordeal of anti-Semitic persecution in an Army camp to become the ideal democratic soldier: thoughtful, selfless, heroic...