Word: chases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lower-class bar, he wrote, "the odors of colognes, after-shave creams, and hair tonics compete ably with vapors of alcohol and tobacco ... Lower-class dance forms, often animalistic, ... are undeniably suggestive: variations of the sexual act, sexual play, the chase, the sudden unexpected consummation of a wild fury, and then stillness, all communicate the dancer's intense drives...
...police fired tear gas and wooden slugs to chase them away. Then a light machine gun suddenly stuttered from across the Red Chinese border. In the hail of bullets, five Hong Kong police died and twelve were wounded. The British quickly rushed a battalion of Gurkha troops to the scene. The Reds at first sniped at the Gurkha, then held their fire when the Gurkha refused to fire back. An uneasy calm descended on the area, but it was the first time since the Communists came to power in China 18 years ago that British and Chinese troops faced each...
...script, stood Patrolman Melvin Schwartz, an honest-to-goodness member of the New York City Police Department, who had not been informed that they were making a flick on his beat. Patrolman Schwartz's eyes narrowed as he beheld the fleeing Coburn. He gave chase, caught Coburn, beat him around the head and ears with his night stick. Co-Star Godfrey Cambridge doubled up with laughter. "Man," he said, "that's a real cop, and he's going to make lieutenant." Unamused, Coburn called a halt to the day's activity and went home to nurse...
...physician for the National Institute of Health who, in 1939, cultured a strain of human polio virus that could paralyze mice, thus giving scientists a low-cost laboratory animal, a breakthrough that inaugurated 16 years of intense research, climaxing in development of the Salk vaccine; of uremia; in Chevy Chase...
...years as chief of the Deutsche Bank, West Germany's largest, Hermann Josef Abs became the most distinguished figure in German finance. Only last year, no less an authority than David Rockefeller, president of the U.S.'s globe-spanning Chase Manhattan Bank, called him "the leading banker in the world." Suave, witty and self-assured, Abs was more than a banker: a confidant and consultant to monarchs and politicians, he became an unofficial ambassador to the world's financial centers and the undisputed éminence grise of German business...