Word: caught
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recognized the new government of Panama last week. But, as Secretary of State Dean Acheson implied at his press conference, this merely meant an admission by the U.S. that brazen Arnulfo Arias had caught the brass ring on Panama's political merry-go-round. "The act of recognition," said the Secretary, "does not constitute approval of the manner in which the present government came into power. We have, in fact, publicly deplored the means by which the political changes in Panama since Nov. 19 were effected...
Stern as the battle proved to be, Gloucester was not as bad as the next "rest camp," Pavuvu, and neither-in some ways-was Peleliu, where the division again caught the full fury of war in the Pacific. Pavuvu is a stinking, rat-infested little island in the Solomons, fit neither for marine nor Gook. Some men went "Asiatic" (regular Marine lingo for rock-happy). A sentry walked his muddy post for four hours, stopped at the last tent as his relief reported, put his rifle to his mouth and blew the top of his head off. This seemed...
Like air hissing out of a balloon, students will hasten out of College today, leaving it deflated and limp. The occasion is the Christmas recess, which, like birthdays, comes only once a year, but never has caught anybody unawares...
...Asbury Park, N.J., a mechanical laughing Santa in the window of Steinbach's department store caught fire from a short circuit. While the smoke billowed through the window, his ghostly mechanical belly laugh could be heard ringing in the streets...
This loyalty procedure cannot even effectively screen out potential traitors: an agent of a "Communist, Facist, or totalitarian" power would lie his way through the Navy's test without compunction. An honest man, however, might be caught up because of an incident in his past, and the country thus deprived of his services...