Word: chases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Traffic Jam. In Independence, Mo., after leading seven patrol cars on a ten-mile chase and drawing police fire, Charles D. Scott, 18, explained: "My foot got wedged on the accelerator...
...Senator Margaret Chase Smith last week soundly beat an aggressive young man named Robert L. Jones in Maine's G.O.P. senatorial primary, rolling up five times as many votes as Jones, and carrying 263 of 626 precincts. Some of Joe McCarthy's enemies concluded that, since McCarthy had introduced Jones to Maine before the campaign and Mrs. Smith had publicly shown her distaste for Joe, the Maine election was a defeat for McCarthy...
...Puzzled Banker. The board majority's view was more nearly summed up in Counsel Robb's cross-examination of John J. McCloy, board chairman of the Chase National Bank, former (1941-45) Assistant Secretary of War, who was one of the character witnesses on behalf of Oppenheimer...
...Brunswick, where he was meditating while fishing, Naturalist Thornton (Old Mother West Wind stories) Burgess, 80, whose bedtime stories are in sum a 44-year chase of Peter Rabbit, who always manages to evade Reddy Fox by a hare's breadth, confided that Peter will never be caught unless it's over Burgess' dead body. "There will never be a tragedy in the Burgess bedtime stories," said he feelingly, with a deep sense of his mission. "Tragedy comes into a child's life soon enough...
McKittrick, retired vice president of the Chase National Bank, who conducted a survey on convertibility for the International Chamber of Commerce, argue that convertibility will have to be underwritten...