Word: catching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...illustrations for 3½ years. As a result, he has become deeply concerned with the Bible and the Christian faith. Said he last week: "I don't know how to explain it in words. I had to elevate myself to the high places in order to catch the spirit of the prophets...
...each of his works Henry Green has tried to investigate a new condition of life. His special "experiment" (apart from tricks of punctuation that are usually more irritating than useful) is to catch his variegated Britons in a situation (blindness, old age, a dense fog) from which they cannot escape-"imprisoned in a rudimentary part of life," says Critic Henry Reed. Thus, Green's characteristically terse titles-Blindness, Living, Caught, Back, Party Going, Concluding-are like simple signposts indicating the general direction in which he intends to explore...
John Mize singled as a pinch-hitter for Silvera in the eighth, and Snuffy Stirnweiss went in the ran for him, but Bobby Brown, in for Raschi, struck out. Gus Niarhos came in to catch the ninth
...play "Deep are the Roots" or "Home of the Brave" in making the casual spectator think hard about the negro "problem." This is true mainly because the negroes it depicts as central characters are intelligent, sensitive, attractive people whose problems the audience does not hesitate to share. You will catch yourself wondering what you would do in a similar predicament...
...long run even the farmers might rebel against the increasing controls of support programs. They can catch a glimpse of their future in the proposed new potato support program. The more openhanded the Government becomes, the more strictly it may have to control what farmers grow right down to the bushel...