Word: pursuers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Naomi Aronberg '76-3, victim of the first assault, said yesterday she was attacked by a pursuer while walking from the Lehman Hall Gate to Lamont Library. She said she was attacked by a seemingly young and fairly weak man from behind as she approached the library...
...final play, he broke swiftly to his left. Fifteen yards into his run, he cut to his right, danced a couple of quick fakes to elude two tacklers, elbowed another out of his way and, under a full head of steam now, bowled over his last hefty pursuer. "That," said an admiring opponent, "is one of the best broken-field runs I've ever seen." OJ. Simpson passing the 10,000-yd. mark in rushing? No, Reggie Jackson ending the baseball season with a mad dash through victory-crazed fans to the safety of the New York Yankee dugout...
...fended off one cagey evening pursuer by turning heel and hazarding that well-worn suggestion of what he could do to his ancestors, just as a staid gentleman with an attache case glanced in our direction. I still feel lucky that he didn't step out of the darkness later to make me regret the public injury. I plunged reluctantly into somber dissections of the mystery of romance. And a porter advised me that marrying him would beat bedding down on the floor of the train station...
...great popularity of Rosalind to three factors: she speaks blank verse only for a few minutes; she wears a skirt only a few minutes; and she makes love to the man instead of waiting for him to make love to her. The last idea of the woman-as-pursuer was especially dear to Shaw, who went on to use it as the basis for Ann Whitefield, the driving force of his masterly Man and Superman...
...American speed skating sensation of the week, though, was lanky Peter Mueller. Taking advantage of being among the first to race on a track that became progressively slower in a rising wind, Mueller churned through the 1,000-meter showdown more than a second faster than his closest pursuer-an overwhelming margin of victory in a race where finishers are clustered within hundredths of a second. For Mueller, 21, fiancé of the 1,500-meter silver medalist Leah Poulos, the victory was the payoff for 15 years of gruelling training. "He's crazy about this sport," says Poulos...