Word: catch
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...picture falls down in the intimate depiction of its commander's character. For all Gregory Peck's grizzle, you can't help realizing that somewhere below that clean-cut chin he has a heart of gold. It seems hard to believe that his men couldn't catch on to the idea that their high command had sent what was really a nice guy down to do the dirty work of restoring morale to a jittery unit...
...wonder horse, was carrying more weight (130 lbs.) than ever before, but he was the overwhelming favorite at 1-4. As he came charging into the stretch, there was only a stubborn grey horse from the Argentine, a 14-1 long shot named Miche, for the champ to catch...
...signs of spring are easy to find. Some are tangible, like the slush running into the catch basin at the foot of Plympton Street. Some lie in the substitution of a word; Bermuda replaces North Conway in the eager travel advertisements. Some germinate between the gray covers of a course catalogue; spring brings the Taxonomy of Flowering Plants (Biology 103) and Seepage and Ground Water Flow (Engineering 262b...
Well sir, they are stamping on the faces of the poor again. For the second time in four months, they have jacked up the fare on Boston's one-lung transit system so that it now costs fifteen cents to go a mile and a half and catch a ball game at Braves Field. Hereafter, it would almost be cheaper to own a car, provided of course, you could find some place to park...
...American military program depends more heavily on the bomb than the Russian program, he declared. Russia's land armies are larger than ours. If both nations outlawed the bomb, Russia would have superior military strength, until the United States could catch...