Word: chaser
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only obligation was to meet Spahn's high salary demands, about $70,000, and to get their money's worth, they appointed him pitching coach as well as a pitcher. Snapped Spahn: "First, I'm a pitcher. Then I'm a coach." An obsessive chaser of the record books, Spahn looked on the Mets as perhaps his last chance to advance his name in baseball annals. He boldly predicted that he would win 20 games...
...soon as it is populated with these freakish characters, the play gets under way, fitfully propelled by Platonov's will-power. "An empty-headed woman-chaser, that's what I am," Platonov admits. By alter-chaser, that's what I am," Platonov admits. By alternating pledges to take up and break off extra-marital escapades, he invites insults, homicide, suicide, and laughter. While the plot thrives on surprise entrances and simultaneous incidents this boobish Casanova slides toward his comic doom...
...French picked Sihanouk over his seemingly tougher uncles, who were actually in line for the succession, because they thought that the boy would be more pliable. For the first few years, it looked as though they had been right. Sihanouk became an inveterate sampot-chaser, thereby entangling himself in a web of domestic complexities. Royal records are kept secret, but he has apparently been married six times, sired 14 children. His current favorite and constant companion: Monique, the lovely half-Italian, half-Cambodian beauty-contest winner whom Sihanouk met when he awarded her a pageant prize in 1951.* Five...
Foremost among the animal sculptors was Antoine-Louis Barye, a man who never traveled farther from Paris than the tranquil cow country of nearby Barbizon. A student of the early romantic painter, Baron Gros, he was an apprentice metal chaser at 14, and later a goldsmith. He went to museums and libraries to study stuffed animals and see pictures of them in their natural habitats, visited zoos to watch them in motion, measured their anatomies after they had died. So vividly did Barye give life to his tiny bronzes that his contemporary, the painter Delacroix, once said...
...Director Guy Hamilton, who borrows his pace from those fans that whir lazily overhead in every tropical sinkhole. But justice triumphs, and the made-in-England script gives the saving final testimony to Trevor Howard (so rational, so decent, so British). Thus Man tosses off its message with a chaser of backhanded amity...