Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ordered up from the bar downstairs, Stix sweated through 2½ hours before his first-and only-guest showed up. The guest turned out to be an artist wanting a show for his watercolors. But today the gallery is a must for art critics and gallery owners on the hunt for dark horses...
This has frightened some independent domestic producers and the coal industry, which have put pressure on Flemming to cut imports now. They argue that foreign oil will cut U.S. production, make America dependent on overseas supplies in wartime, slow the hunt for more oil reserves in the continental U.S. and put other fuel suppliers, e.g., coal-mine operators, out of business. Those in favor of oil imports answer that U.S. production is using up oil reserves that would be needed in war time. In any case U.S. production is up 5% this year despite increased imports...
PAKISTAN OIL DEAL will give Nelson Bunker Hunt, 29-year-old son of Texas Oilman H. L. Hunt, exclusive drilling rights in two 10,000-square-mile tracts. Hunt and Pakistan agreed to put a maximum of $42 million in exploration and development, of which Hunt will put up three-fourths, Pakistan onefourth...
...especially to the educational third of HEW, which will be his particular baby-Hunt will bring a topnotch administrative ability and a knack for inspiring the people who work for him. In the field of education on a national level, Hunt leaves the specifics to others, thinks in terms of broad policy, good public relations and orderly progress. "It's not enough," he once said, "that each of us recognizes and accepts his personal accountability for teaching. It is essential that we have a clearly stated and accepted philosophy of education that expresses our values and that guides...
...this reference Hunt's scholarship is off in several directions. John Gilpin was the hero of a poem by William Cowper (1731-1800). Gilpin went off in just two directions-north and south. A wealthy London draper, he sent his wife off in a chaise for a holiday in Edmonton, eight miles to the north, and agreed to follow on horseback. But he galloped right through Edmonton to Ware, nearly 15 miles beyond. Then he turned around and headed for Edmonton again, but once more he rushed through the town and ultimately arrived safely in London, where his travels...