Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eerie moments of contrast. The nobleman hero's return to his family, to confess to his own guilty crime while absent and then to smoke out the atmosphere of crime and guilt that haunted his childhood, is charged with ominous Aeschylean echoes. The Greek Furies themselves still hunt the criminal down, until he is able to convert an Orestes-like fleeing from doom into a Christian pursuit of salvation. Against this search for light are placed things blind and self-centered in contemporary life-a mother's passionate willfulness, a smug family's hush-hush gentility...
EGYPTIAN OIL HUNT has been ended by U.S. combine of Continental Oil, Ohio Oil, Cities Service and Richfield Oil, who spent 4½ years, $30 million trying to find oil in western desert, found only dry holes...
...John Calvin's way and the way of his followers and the way of the New World experiment. The only embellishments of the day were made for tombstones and portals, and one John Hunt reflected the colony's aesthetic esprit when he complained that the stained glass of popish cathedrals kept out the light...
...familiar with Hunt Clubs, and as his 1943 Plymouth came to a trembling stop on the fine pebble driveway, he bit his lip and looked around uncertainly...
...bright leaves of New England autumn crackled crisply underfoot as hunters in Maine and Vermont took to the woods and meadows in search of rabbit and pheasant. In Wisconsin and Oregon the hunt was on for grouse and quail. In Virginia and Maryland, packs of foxhounds were ready for the classic chase. Along the great flyways of the nation, ducks headed south. From California to the Carolinas, observers reported ground-game population on the increase as hunters and dogs prepared for one of the best seasons ever for the U.S.'s third (after fishing and bowling) most popular participation...