Word: catching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ending corruption and nepotism," Wu continues. "Just like we've heard before. But unless we finally get serious about such things, we will never build our New China. We will watch Chinese on the outside rise in even white societies because of their industry and intellect. We will never catch...
Last week Japan announced that it would sharply curtail one of its most controversial practices: the use of drift nets. These enormous expanses of nylon mesh, which fan out for miles behind trawlers, are generally intended to catch squid and tuna, but they also indiscriminately trap and kill large numbers of other fish, seabirds, porpoises and other marine mammals. Japanese officials said they would reduce the drift-net fleet in the South Pacific to 20 ships, the same number that worked the area in the 1987-88 season. This season the fleet had grown to at least 60 boats...
...Fussell argues that the horror was of such magnitude that participants -- civilians as much as soldiers -- survived it only by reliance on euphemism and illusions: our lads were all brave heroes, for example, while theirs were sadistic thugs. Fussell has a sharp eye for the bawdry and the Catch-22 absurdities of combat. But hard to find in his barrages of withering contempt is much sense that this war, for all the bumbling incompetence of its captains, nonetheless had a just cause...
...outfielder Kevin Mitchell (46 homers) and first baseman Will Clark (109 RBIs), the Giants may boast the game's most titanic twosome since the Yankee era of Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle. Small wonder that manager Roger Craig is chortling, "It's going to be hard for anyone to catch...
...good way to catch a reader's attention is to start off with a bang. This book does so. Chapter 1, first sentence: "The most perilous work in America is the harvest by hand of sugarcane in South Florida." Holy mackerel, stop the presses! A lot of coal miners will certainly be relieved to learn this, not to mention scads of military test pilots. And just how perilous is this work, which is principally performed by laborers brought in from the Caribbean? An answer is tucked in at the end of a paragraph 245 pages later...