Word: chaser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...makes a good-not to say pointed-story for readers who like to take their fables neat. If they want a chaser, they might look into the real and more complex history of Japan...
...vast daily fountain of print is a national press. But it is also a hometown press and as such, for nine long years, it had been full to bursting with news of its own kinetic, photogenic mayor, Fiorello Henry ("Butch") LaGuardia. Whether as fire buff, civic scold, uplifter, ambulance chaser, hemisphere-defense expert, official greeter, fashion critic or hometown booster, Butch always has been copy. And the press has been good to him. Few politicians have ever received the continuous campaign support that New York's newspapers have bestowed on their bumptious little dictator and fiery reformer...
...Dirt-chaser John S. Sumner, predicting a war boom for the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, tabulated his booty for 1941: 13,198 photographs, movie films, negatives, 8,668 books, magazines, pamphlets, 300 printed cards, one movie projector, one gambling outfit, one revolver, 10,406 unspecified "novelties...
...only is Mechem the top puck-Chaser on defense, with a record of almost as many saves as the goalie in the course of a single battle, but his spectacular offensive feats have brought him to first place in scoring. The '45 leader has racked up 11 goals and 10 assists in 14 encounters from his defense post, more than any other Crimson puckster...
...Chaser. In Detroit, a judge gave a divorce to Mrs. Maria Millis, 91, who complained that her 73-year-old husband was a woman-chaser...