Word: chasing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...protesting students charged that the law firm--Milbank, Tweed, Hadley, and McCoy--oppresses the black people of South Africa by supporting their government. The firm represents the Chase Manhattan Bank...
...present rate, barring bankruptcy, Radcliffe will find itself, several years from now, an imposingly brickish place populated by girls who grew up together in Scarsdale, or Darien, or Chevy Chase--with an occasional black face or two. Maybe that's what the administrators want...
...14th century with his white armor and white charger. Renowned not only as a huntsman but as a lover, a poet and a diplomat, Gaston kept a stable of 600 riding horses, hundreds of stag, buck and boar hounds, and the fastest fleet of greyhounds in medieval Europe. The chase in the Middle Ages was an immensely sophisticated pursuit. Knowing better than any man of his day how it should be pursued, Gaston in 1387 wrote a delightfully detailed treatise on the hunt titled Le Livre de la Chasse...
...saved; therefore, the good sportsmen will be saved." Popes Julius II, Leo X and Pius II-who wrote his own treatise on venery under his Christian name, Aeneas Silvius-all enthusiastically rode to hounds. And while papal edict forbade monks to hunt, the church gave its blessing to the chase by proclaiming Hubert, the 8th century Bishop of Liege who saw Christ's image on a stag's brow, its patron saint...
Writing an exciting biography about Warren Gamaliel Harding is like filming a chase sequence with a wooden Indian. Harding's instincts were all for posture. Like a suntanned Roman, he struck his Midwest Ciceronian pose and held it, occasionally delivering himself of the sort of speech that instantly self-destructs upon reaching the brain...