Word: hunted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Practical Hazing. Hell Week had been banned on some campuses-notably at Indiana University, after nine Theta Chis were jailed for breaking into a grocery store on a Hell Week scavenger hunt. At Tufts College in Medford, Mass., which first abolished and then restored Hell Week, "practical hazing" (e.g., cleaning and polishing the houses) had replaced such schoolboyish stunts as measuring the Charles River bridges with 13-inch codfish. Everywhere paddling (also known as "boarding," "hacking," etc.) was about as out-of-date as bell-bottom trousers...
...Citizens of Monterey, Calif, were off on a new gold hunt. In a week of digging with hands, rakes, shovels and a bulldozer, they recovered upwards of $4,000 in gold pieces from a vacant lot which was once owned by a wealthy farmer who distrusted banks...
...hunt did not end in the legislative halls. On the lookout for Communist saboteurs, troops patrolled Rio suburbs and Santos docks. Light tanks guarded the great São Paulo electric plant. Hoje, São Paulo's violent Communist sheet, was worked over by police, and masked toughies who had caught the linotype-smashing fever took on the sensational but anti-Communist tabloid A Hora...
Hold hard! No true Irishman would delight to see a hunt riding just on the tails (ugh!) of hounds [TIME...
...hunt was on. The chill moan of the prison sirens yanked Roy Best out of his cosy retreat. Back in his office, he telephoned for help, rounded up city and state police, a National Guard company, and volunteers...