Word: caught
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Street Scene. In Manhattan, a bus passed up Raphael Torres, who grabbed a cab, chased the bus 33 blocks, caught it, whipped out a knife and stabbed the driver...
...most of which she made herself), eight nets for herring, mackerel and other ground fish, two rowboats and a 23-foot motorboat. She first qualified for the Dominion government fishing bounty* 17 years ago, has just got her latest $8.75 check for the 5,000 pounds of fish she caught...
Odessa hadn't caught up with bebop yet, but it already had too many low American habits to suit Pravda. "How can we get rid of swing and jitterbugging," Pravda demanded to know, "when . " . vulgar melodies [like] Pussycats, Crazy Girl and White Moth sound in the public places . . . pampering low-grade tastes . . . while folk and real ball dances are unavailable...
Good Omen. The whole team had caught fire from Boudreau. First-Baseman Eddie Robinson was batting .462, Third-Baseman Ken Keltner was leading the league with five homeruns, and Outfielder Larry Doby-the American League's first & only Negro-had slammed two more. Bob Feller had won his first two starts, saved a third game by quenching a 14th-inning fire with two strike-outs (after Boudreau had tried six other pitchers...
...From Madison Square Garden, the circus was presented in five three-hour telecasts. The Greatest Show on Earth turned out to be one of TV's greatest shows, with a smash Hooperating (67.2). There were a few missing ingredients (the color and smells), but the long-distance lens caught such unusual details as a close-up of Unus' one-fingered stand, the dazed expression on a midget bareback rider's face, an elephant's wink...