Word: caught
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Police & General Svoboda. The National Socialist was one of four non-Communist parties which had brought on the crisis. Fortnight before, its leaders, together with those of the Slovakian Democrat, Catholic People's and Social Democrat parties, had caused a showdown. They caught Police Boss Nosek firing non-Communist policemen and replacing them with Reds. When Nosek refused to reinstate the men, 15 non-Communist cabinet members boycotted the cabinet...
...Washington, all this drum-beating caught the ear of George Middleton, aging (67) ex-dramatist (Polly with a Past), now a copyright expert in the Office of Alien Property. Middleton began asking Doubleday questions: Who had found the diaries and brought them to the U.S.? And why hadn't they been turned over to OAP as Government property...
...last week's showing, they could not be sure. Grain prices seemed to have found an uneasy bottom. Corn and wheat seesawed, ending the week about where they started. The stockmarket also caught its breath; trading was small and cautious. Traders, like most other businessmen, were waiting to see how severely the crash in commodities had shaken the boom. Last week, a few soft spots appeared...
...drift to evil before he knows of it or is capable of it. ... I shall go on dragging my son along without knowing what river to throw him into." Mirabeau almost died of smallpox at three, was disfigured by it. All the children (his parents had eleven) were caught in the cross fire of their family quarrels. His father brought his mistress into their home. His mother gave "her lover, an officer, a certificate of her full satisfaction"-a document which fell into her husband's hands. He wanted to commit her to an insane asylum, finally succeeded...
Nobody believed him. They knew how hard it was to get steel and construction workers. But the town caught Reese's enthusiasm, sent a delegation to the National Steel Corp.'s Ernest T. Weir. Weir promised to send steel. From his Great Lakes Steel Corp. in Detroit, Weir also sent Quonset-type buildings. The Pennsylvania Railroad helped out by giving priorities to Reese's materials and stopping through trains at Scio just to unload them. When he ran short of cash, five New York chain stores, which had sold millions of pieces of Reese-made china, lent...