Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gingerly rolling back the tide of earth in one hall, 13 feet wide, the excavators found a mosaic picturing an African big-game hunt (see opposite page). After uncovering 72 feet of the hall, the end of the mosaic was nowhere in sight. Fishing scenes and pictures drawn from the myths of Hercules and Orpheus embellished other rooms of the villa. Probably the most startling discovery was the mosaic floor of what archaeologists guess was once a girls' gymnasium. Theresa laurel-crowned prizewinner and her willowy companions disport themselves in skimpy woolen garb-an unmistakable preview of today...
...World Series, as you should be," retorted the doctor hurriedly. He added, politely: "Giants ahead, six to nothing," and hung up. Once more the U.S. celebrated the seven days of the long lunch hour, the surreptitious telephone call, the quick office bet, and-to feverish New Yorkers-of the hunt for the ducat, the pasteboard, the seat at the game. BASEBALL FEVER, the sports pages dutifully reported, GRIPPED THE COUNTRY...
...hazards. Gulf's partner, Anglo-Iranian, has already lost its great Abadan refinery (see FOREIGN NEWS), and the two are boosting their Kuwait production as rapidly as possible to help meet Europe's oil deficit. Political upheavals are not the only changes. Soaring costs have made the hunt for oil enormously expensive. Recently, Swensrud launched Gulf on the biggest wildcat hunt in the U.S., exploring 800,000 acres leased from the State of Mississippi.* Gulf may well sink millions without result. But Swensrud is not perturbed. Gulf, a pioneer in the science of petroleum geophysics, has helped trim...
Summer has gone and the Beacon Hill red-hunt is on again. Like Rosie, the bloodhound with five hundred recaptured convicts to her credit, the state senators and representatives never give up the chase. Fortunately, they have not had Rosie's success...
Klaatu's escape touches off a vast monster-hunt, demonstrating the earthlings' frightening capacity for panic, ignorance, unreasoning hostility and pygmy-minded self-seeking. He finally accomplishes his mission, thanks to a young war widow (Patricia Neal), her eleven-year-old son (Billy Gray) and the earth's leading scientist, well played by Sam Jaffe with an Einstein hairdo...