Word: catchup
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pass as a Ph.D. thesis; on the open stage it is a cruel test of audience patience. In recent seasons, a firm of legalistic factmongers - Hoch-huth, Weiss and Kipphardt - has invaded the theater. They shuttle between distortion and documentation, rehashing past history and seasoning it generously with the catchup of guilt. Each of these playwrights is a displaced pedant who pretends to be stretching the mind. In actuality, he is merely inviting the audience to have a good...
...century called a "London particular," glides up to a luckless trollop, and with a knife at least as big as the minute hand on Big Ben opens the poor girl from 'ere to 'ere. At such moments Hill hoses the screen with such a preposterous torrent of catchup that gross horror becomes Grand Guignol, and even the squeamish should concede that his sense of humor is simply ripping...
...complete high school education. By 1965, 38 percent had completed high school, and among the current young people, slightly more than half now finish high school. The number of college graduates is also rising rapidly. Among whites, the gains are less dramatic, so there has been a catchup in Negro educational achievement...
...annual improvement factor," which inflates wages periodically according to rises in company productivity. All that would go on top of what the unions call a "one-shot catchup" -which means a bundle for all the benefits they feel they have missed over the last six years...
...gunsel. "My God, I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!" Whereupon Wynn ran offstage and returned leading a full-grown sway-backed horse. It was almost a minute before the audience was quiet enough to hear Wynn's topper: "Will you have mustard or catchup...