Word: caught
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...body hit a skein of telephone wires, caught for a second and plunged on, ripping the wires loose from the walls. She landed, groaning, on the cement courtyard, the wire still wrapped in a tangle around her legs. There was an instant of silence. Then the whole neighborhood was in an uproar...
...probability, the job was good for only five months. It had been hawked around to almost every wheelhorse in the Democratic stable. Harry Truman had offered it to John Steelman, to the A.F.L. Teamsters' old "Uncle Dan" Tobin, to New York's ex-Senator James Mead. Caught by surprise when Congress decided abruptly to adjourn, Truman told Democratic Chairman Howard McGrath to call Tobin in Boston and to tell him-not consult him, but tell him-that his nomination was going up to the Senate...
...McCormick, Britain's Beverley Baxter, M.P., drama critic (the Evening Standard) and ex-managing editor (the London Daily Express), observed: "As a journalist, I salute him . . . As a Britisher, I would not weep if he got caught up in his own presses and added a fifth color to his cartoons...
...with her. And one young man, whom she had met at a university dance, "was obviously a member of the secret police assigned to spy on me. The Poles laughed at us for trying to come to terms with the Russians. They're cynical, because they're caught...
...electrical transformers and motors for such diesels as Baldwin built.) But American Locomotive, foreseeing the diesel revolution, spent $20 million on five war surplus plants and converted completely to diesel manufacture. (It rolled out its last steam locomotive in June.) By the end of 1947 American Locomotive had almost caught up with...