Word: catchingly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...crouched in the bar and cried. As the barrage kept up, flash fires raced through the flimsy brothels and opium dens along the Avenue of Evening Paradise. Risking the crossfire, prostitutes and addicts joined the long lines of refugees that padded along the banks of the Mekong River to catch a ferry across to safety in Thailand...
...first full week in December, although New York's Lord &; Taylor scored the best single sale day in its history. But last week New York was hit by heavy snows that kept shoppers at home-except for those hunting overshoes, gloves and overcoats. Boston also was blizzarded. To catch up, downtown Boston stores stayed open Saturday night for the first time in history...
...search of a mature man with wit. poise and rough-hewn charm. But Durante's only favorite since 1945 has been sometime Actress Margie Little, 39, who knows that a good man is not only hard to find but, in Durante's case, even harder to catch. The couple got engaged ten years ago, and by 1956 Jimmy mustered the courage to announce that they would be married the following year. The betrothal stretched out over the next four years. Last week gravel-voiced, grammar-fracturing Durante, usually as vague as yesterday's fog, proclaimed that...
...years the FBI tailed Dr. Soblen. He was aware of the chase and seemed to delight in it, on occasion slowing down his car so that the FBI car could catch up with him. Last week he displayed no surprise when FBI agents arrested him on a charge of wartime espionage, which could carry a death sentence. Taken to the federal courthouse in nearby Manhattan, Soblen pleaded not guilty, was jailed in lieu of $75,000 bail. Coolly he asked the judge for permission to bid farewell to "the FBI gentlemen-they were nice enough." Then he bowed from...
...motionless, and the only ones that have a " 'reverse gear' which enables them to fly backwards as prettily and efficiently as they can forwards." What will most excite bird watchers as well as plain readers is the crisp, full-color photographs, the largest collection ever published, which catch the hummingbirds in dazzling flight...