Word: pursuer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From that day on Bob Kennedy, 31, a lawyer with the true prosecutor's instinct for the jugular, has been a formidable pursuer of the bosses of the powerful Teamsters Union. Son of Boston Millionaire Joseph P. Kennedy (who was F.D.R.'s ambassador to Great Britain), younger brother of Massachusetts' U.S. Senator John Kennedy, Investigator Bob is an average package (5 ft. 10 in., 150 Ibs.) full of far more than average energy. At Harvard he played end on the varsity team, though he then weighed only 160 Ibs. As a Navy seaman in 1945, he went...
...There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive. Passions usually have their roots in that which is blemished, crippled, incomplete and insecure within...
...expected, Kuc jumped into an early lead, but Chataway was right on his heels. When the Russian.sprinted, Chataway turned on the power and stayed with him. Lap after lap they rounded the track, close as a pair of vaudeville tap dancers. The Russian could not shake his pursuer...
...save his pursuer undue trouble, Kimathi politely replied (in a letter to a local newspaper in Nairobi): "I shall be away from Kenya in November and December visiting Uganda, the Sudan and Egypt. After that, I attend a Pan-African conference in Lusaka, Northern Rhodesia. (Signed) Kimathi, Marshal and Commander-in-Chief. Defense Council, Land Freedom Army...
...Francis Thompson could be the author of one of the few unmistakably great odes in the English language, The Hound of Heaven, in which Thompson himself is the pursued and Christ the pursuer, in which the life-worn fugitive turns in ineffective flight to friendship, children, nature before he surrenders to the Hound of Heaven...