Word: caught
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strike clamped down West Coast ports as tight as a submerged submarine's hatches. About 160 U.S. ships of the Pacific cargo and passenger fleets were caught in port; about 200 were at sea and would be tied up the minute they docked in West Coast ports. Hawaiians and Alaskans, who know what it is like to have Bridges paralyze their economies, battened down for another long storm. Bridges made no provision for loading cargoes for the occupation forces of the Pacific. He made one concession: "Only the dead will be worked." This meant that the bodies of World...
...George Humphrey, an up & coming lawyer in Saginaw, Mich., caught the eye of Dick Grant, Hanna's general counsel, and joined the company. In 1929, young Humphrey moved into the presidency. Under him, Hanna made money even during the worst years of the depression. Humphrey says: "We only do the obvious." But he has the knack of making money out of the obvious...
...Bryant's bosses saw his stunt. Caught, Bryant apologized, poured back the fluid, worth only about half a cent. Nevertheless, his employers gave him his week's pay (about $20) and fired...
...know its fascination. I have felt the godlike power man derives from his machines." But in the last decade Charles Lindbergh has "seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve . . . We are in the grip of a scientific materialism, caught in a vicious cycle where our security today seems to depend on regimentation and weapons which will ruin us tomorrow . . . Unless science is controlled by a greater moral force, it will become the Antichrist prophesied by the early Christians...
Hook, Line & Sinker. In San Francisco Bay, novice Angler Mrs. Woodward Melone innocently followed her husband's mischievous advice, caught two sharks by baiting her hook with bacon, tomato, and geranium...