Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there any fire at all below Joe McCarthy's smoke signals? Maryland's thorough and careful Democratic Senator Millard E. Tydings, chairman of the investigating committee, promised "neither a witch hunt, nor a whitewash...
...noon the next day it seemed that half the citizens in town were out on the roads northeast of the city to watch the hunt. A good many, armed to the teeth and accompanied by a rabble of house dogs, joined in the search. The skirmishing took on the look of a Guatemalan revolution. Civil Air Patrol planes flew low. Cops, zookeepers, deputy sheriffs, volunteer gunmen and a detachment of Marine reservists with M-i rifles and walkie-talkie radios scoured the scrub-oak thickets, flushing out rabbits, house cats, and, occasionally, each other...
...hunt was intensified. Foxhounds, bloodhounds, and whole packs of beagles, poodles, terriers and collies had failed to follow the leopard's spoor. The publicity-conscious Denver Post got into the act by flying a pack of Colorado cougar dogs to the scene. Wild at this poaching, the Daily Oklahoman immediately sent a special plane to Dryden, Texas, got a pack of hounds guaranteed to have chased pumas in old Mexico. As darkness fell on the third excited day, the leopard was still loose. But according to early information, none of the hunters had yet shot another...
Behind the Iron Curtain in Eastern Europe, the Red hunt bore down implacably on party heretics, class enemies and "agents of Western imperialism." Most spectacular was the Vogeler trial in Hungary (see above). The pattern elsewhere...
...whalebone in a ball of blubber, froze it intact, and bowled it across the snow to the bear. After a few suspicious licks, the hungry bear usually gulped it down. Soon the blubber melted, releasing the coiled splint and wounding the bear. In the second phase of the hunt, the bear loped off in pain, dropping bloody dung which its pursuer sometimes ate to keep his strength up. After a flight that sometimes lasted several days, the bear finally sank down in mortal exhaustion and submitted to the man's spear...