Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wrong Bug. As chief investigator of a super-secret intelligence unit of the Chicago police dubbed Scotland Yard, Joe Morris had, since 1952, been painstakingly gathering data on Chicago gangsters and their political friends. His tactic: pick up a hoodlum, e.g., Sam ("Golf Bag") Hunt,* grill him, set him free, tail him. With the help of surveillances, wire taps and bugs, Morris filled five filing cabinets with intelligence on 600 "syndicate" mobsters, 8,000 lesser hoodlums, and a disturbing number of his fellow cops and assorted politicians...
...private army of fighting Sikhs against the Kaiser's Germans in World War I. A princely spender even in the days when spending came easily to India's princes, Patiala's Maharajah was an enthusiastic cricketer and polo player as well, and his enthusiasm for the hunt was such that he was forced to import tigers by the dozen from neighboring states to eke out his own rapidly dwindling stock...
...Formal Uses for In-School TV" will evaluate the use of Television inside the classroom. This final evening session will be held on July 18, and among the speakers will be Harold C. Hunt, Under-secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare...
...furnace, physicists will explore the structure of metals, search for new plastics, investigate new ways of refining oil, new uses for rubber. Radioisotopes from the 50,000-watt reactor will be used by industry as tracers to track friction damage in machinery, test new chemical carriers for cancer therapy, hunt new manufacturing techniques in fields ranging from rubber to building materials...
Finding some loose insulation around a ventilator outside a hearing room where a Senate Armed Services Subcommittee meets, two Pentagon sleuths, joined by a Capitol cop, set out on a spy hunt. Soon they clomped into the next-door office of New York's civil-righteous Democratic Senator Herbert Lehman, brushed past his secretary, poked around in the Senator's closet refrigerator in search of a listening device. Next day the Senate (notably excepting Indiana's dissenting Republican Homer Capehart) thundered its indignation for two hours...