Word: chasing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Suddenly from the mountain above there came a fierce Zulu battle cry. Down the hill raced a horde of black savages, maddened with the drug and furiously waving their assagais and knobkerries. Five cops were speared to death. The other two escaped badly battered after a three-hour chase...
...were rounded up by police and locked in a room at the new army barracks at Kosti only 65 ft. long and 23 ft. wide. "There were more than 300 of us in that prison room," said one who escaped at last. "We were all tired from the police chase and sick from standing too long under the sun. The room we were put in had only two small windows and both were closed. Sweating and choking, we tried to open the windows, but they were stuck fast. Some of us cried. Others panicked. We knocked at the doors...
...Toledo, nabbed after an hour's chase over snow-covered streets, William R. Robinson confessed that he had just robbed the Hillcrest Hotel for the second time because "it was so easy the last time," told the cops that he had come back to Toledo from Michigan to "read my press notices at the library...
...stiff fine of approximately $14,000 per poaching boat). The Russians advised Oslo that it was all "a regrettable misunderstanding," said there had been no premeditated poaching, and appealed to Norway to release the 15 Soviet boats. Relieved Norwegians stopped looking for deep political motives beneath the Red herring chase. "I think it's just plain fish-nothing else," said an official...
...Charles Sheeler, 72, learned painting from a flamboyant academician named William Merritt Chase, relearned it from looking at Piero della Francesca's art and practicing photography. Piero taught him that art needs no gestures, that it can be pure, precise and silent as a frozen birdbath and still live forever. Photography taught him, as he says, that "light is the great designer." He developed a "growing belief that pictures realistically conceived might have an underlying abstract structure." That belief did not become a certainty until middle age; once arrived at, it led him to do great things...