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Word: catching (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would like to kill him, just to prove he couldn't die." Manson, said the ranchman, read deeply in Oriental theology, and believed in reincarnation and the insignificance of individual lives. Manson, who is white, "felt the Establishment was the white man. and his karma was to catch up with everybody and shoot all the pigs he saw for, like, enslaving the Negro. It wasn't wrong to kill the pigs, to slash them down with a knife, because they were destroying the earth." Manson, according to this acquaintance, hoped that his killings would touch off racial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE DEMON OF DEATH VALLEY | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

...Laurel home, from where Hershey was taken? Or does it refer to his friends Dewey Wood and de Forrest? Most of his acquaintances have the names of plants or trees: Maddy Beecher, Oliver Plane, Ivy Bowles, Lief Lund. John Plante, Cassia Meaning. Or is Cassia Meaning a pun on catch ya meaning? The word plays are both frivolous and serious, representing "the mind's fierce fuss, forever discontinuous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Present Imperfect | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

...Harvard freshman hockey team's late rally failed to catch a talented Boston University squad yesterday afternoon at Watson Rink, and the Yardlings fell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B.U. Freshmen Edge Harvard Skaters, 6-5 | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

...went ahead right away and seemed to be slowly increasing his lead until he was at least two yards in front with only 75 yards to go. Gerhart looked terribly lethargic, and I was understandably angry. "What's wrong with Gerhart?" I wondered. "Why doesn't he try to catch up?" Then he started to move, and Harvard people began to get excited. I though he might even catch Frink, and then he did. With 35 yards to go. Frink was second and we were on our feet. Gerhart beat him easily, and Harvard was ahead...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Soaking Up the Bennies | 12/10/1969 | See Source »

Gerhart continued to pour it on and easily outswam Frink to gain revenge in 1:49.6. "If it's humanly possible to catch up, Toby can do it," captain Mike Cahalan said after the meet. "When you beat a guy like Frink, it kills them." he added...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Tankmen Slaughter Army, 84-29, For Upset Win in League Opener | 12/8/1969 | See Source »

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