Word: chasings
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Across the Channel, the European field-sports community has watched these convulsions in disbelief, concern and even with a little amusement. In Germany, hounds are not used to kill game but to chase animals toward hunters with guns. But there is hunting with hounds either on foot or on horseback in Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Italy. In France, where politicians antagonize rural folk at their peril, there are 440 hound packs - more than in Britain - to hunt everything from deer to foxes to boar; parties, parades and church masses are staged to cheer the hunts on. Says...
...it’s safe to say that the Crimson was the better team Saturday. It executed its game plan very well, stifling the Big Red’s dump-and-chase offensive philosophy by clogging up the neutral zone and then using its team speed and the large Olympic-size ice sheet to create good scoring opportunities...
...perhaps it shouldn't have come as such a shock. It used to be that the preferred way for political spouses to gain elective office was to have their husbands keel over. Most of the century's first women in Congress were political widows such as Margaret Chase Smith, the legendary Republican Senator from Maine who succeeded her husband and took on Joe McCarthy. The first woman elected to the Senate was Arkansas's Hattie Wyatt Caraway who was appointed to fill her husband's term in 1932 and was elected on her own later that year. Edith Wilson effectively...
...verge of busting a drug-dealing gang he has been tracking when fellow cop Trey Sellars (Murphy) unintentionally botches the plan. When the media shows up, Mitch is so annoyed that he shoots one of the cameras. After seeing his disgruntled face splattered over newspapers, TV producer Chase Renzi (Rene Russo) comes up with the idea for a cop reality show starring the now famous Mitch. Although he wants nothing to do with it, the veteran cop still complies because it is the only way he will be taken off suspension. His boss hopes the show will boost police image...
...customers, being aggressive to passers-by," says Jean-Pierre Clavien, a local shopkeeper. "They created fear and insecurity in the neighborhood." Last week all that aggression culminated in the death of one dealer - an asylum seeker from Sierra Leone - who was stabbed in the liver, apparently after giving chase to a buyer who had run off without paying for his coke...