Word: catch
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...manifesto was obviously intended to catch the middle-class voters, who probably will decide the election. The Tory press, however, was not soothed by Labor restraint. "LAND TAKE-OVER FEARED" was the Daily Express' interpretation of a Labor proposal for government cultivation of unused private land. To Lord Rother-mere's Daily Mail, the Labor Party manifesto was "a blank check on nationalization"; to his Evening News, it was a "pink overall," a "pink pig in a poke" or "a great red wolf...
...fastest Inquirer Mile ever run. In Boston next night, he ran away with the Knights of Columbus two-mile for his fifth straight win. That set the stage for the big event of 1950's indoor track season. This week Special Agent Wilt will have a chance to catch Wisconsin's Gehrmann in the classic Wanamaker Mile at Madison Square Garden...
When the marines go into action, at Tarawa and Two Jima, they behave more like marines. While taking pains to reconstruct big scenes of the island battles, Republic has leaned heavily on incomparable wartime film to catch the terrible fury of the Pacific fighting. Unfortunately, by intercutting shots of Wayne & company-studio-lighted in uniforms that don't match those of the real invaders-Director Allan Dwan gets a patchwork that suggests a series of trailers intruding on some bang-up newsreel footage...
Sincere Encyclopedia. Working largely from diaries and letters, Author Tharp fills the married lives of Sophia Hawthorne and Mary Mann with the kind of domestic detail that might warm the hearts of any sewing circle. But whenever she leaves them to catch up with Lizzie's latest doings, The Peabody Sisters begins to hum with good works and intellectual vibrations. Liz was a prodigious worker who was seldom paid for her effort. For a time, she was William Ellery Channing's secretary, but the great preacher apparently never thought to pay her except in inspiration. The Dial, which...
...this spring's discussions, however, the U.S. may have to change its position, and accept modification of the U.N. plan. Russia now has the bomb; postponement of control merely allows the USSR to catch up with our bomb production. Also, there has been pressure from Western bloc nations, who fear atomic war with Russia, for some sort of control soon. Off the record, U.S. delegates in the UN have already stated that they may accept several modification: 1) allocation of production by bi-lateral treaties between the Commission and nations; 2) punishment to be left to the countries in which...