Word: pursuit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early game was known as the "Boston game," a sort of cross between rugby and a free-for-all. A curious feature was that a player could run and throw or pass the ball only if he were being pursued by an opponent. When the opposing player gave up pursuit he called out to the runner, who had to stop and kick the ball...
...forced into counterattacks, would give back more than it got. If Communist aircraft attacked Quemoy or Formosa, U.S. forces might follow in hot pursuit to Communist mainland bases, might well bomb these bases...
...effort free "for the good of Provincetown." He acts as second ticket-taker at his museum (and makes the volunteer workers pay the going $1.50 for the catalogue), while his wife Jean handles lunch-relief shifts at the festival gates. Some Provincetowners have found Chrysler's headlong pursuit of culture distasteful, but they appreciate "the artistic climate created" by his enterprise...
What Odds? In the long sag of peace, this leathery bantam spoiled for a mix. Everything Claire Lee Chennault did, he did belligerently. With two flying sergeants, he barnstormed the land in three precisely flown P12 pursuit planes - the famed "Three Men on a Flying Trapeze" of the air shows. What he wanted to prove was that precise and darting aggression spelled air power, but nobody cared. And when his noncommissioned wingmen flunked their tests for commissions, his gorge rose hot as a Louisiana pepper, and he resigned his own commission, saying: "I'm glad to get out. They...
...members of the household. Mother proves the most understanding of the lot, but young Chris is outraged. Says he: "You're too much for me. You look so normal, but you're as mixed up as any of them!" To prove his own normality, he abandons the pursuit of Sally and makes a determined pass...