Word: catching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speak with the manager?" she said this time. No one was going to catch her twice with the same trick...
...speaking of the government's method of prosecution and the trial procedure, Miss Mitford sticks on the crucial issue of political trials. In this case the defendants are tried under the traditional catch-all political repression charge of "conspiracy" for what are essentially their anti-government beliefs. The Conspiracy charged by the government was in effect the Resistance itself, and the five figurehead defendants were held responsible for the entire draft-card burning, induction-refusal movement. One assumes that the government could not tolerate the tremendous anti-war moral tide unless it could be boiled down to a conspiracy. That...
With the Coop closing at 1 p. m. employees would still be able to participate in the anti-war activities in the Square, which are scheduled to begin at 1:15 p. m., Zavelle said. "Anyone also wishing to attend a church service could catch the one at 7:30 p. m.," he said...
...wonder that the gang was difficult to catch. Last week the dismayed New Orleans police superintendent, Joseph Giarrusso, announced that charges of burglary had been filed against seven policemen and five former cops. Eight more policemen were suspended for refusing to take lie detector tests. It was the nation's worst police scandal of the decade...
...Next is the battle of the Alamo. Several people in the crowd try to involuntarily catch their breath. The scene shows Colonel Travis ("I shall never surrender or retreat... VICTORY OR DEATH.") drawing his famous line on the ground which his men were supposed to walk across if they were going to stay and fight. The wounded Jim Bowie is directing two aides to carry him and his cot over the line. Davy Crockett is there. All 187 defenders were killed in the next day's battle, but they brought down over 1600 of the Mexican soldiers...