Word: pursuit
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...separated from her husband. After her divorce Hall courted her over the parcheesi board in the Dowsey parlor until the summer of 1933, when Gladys went to her father's camp in the Adirondacks. Lonesome Len chartered a small plane and took off in hot pursuit. In the mountains the pilot had trouble finding a landing strip, finally came down on a baseball diamond, after buzzing it until he broke up the ball game. Len made the last, 38-mile lap by taxi and boat. "When I saw him then," recalls Gladys, "I knew. And he seemed...
...week's furor over the 18 tanks for Saudi Arabia (TIME, Feb. 27) principally because this inept episode in diplomacy was read as being symptomatic of high-level inattention to detail. Some of the worry was stirred by eager, trend-pursuing newsmen (see JUDGMENTS & PROPHECIES) and politicians in pursuit of campaign issues. Some of it was well-founded...
...unnerve a nation with an inherent zest for political and economic competition. But it is bound to cause apprehension if the highest leaders of Government in the U.S. and elsewhere fail to call the new signals. One trouble in Washington is that Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, in pursuit of person-to-person diplomacy abroad, has been too busy to spell out the State Department's policies to congressional committees and the people as thoroughly as he did earlier. But a more important factor is that because of his illness the President has missed...
Under the leadership of Virginia, which presented an idea, not a plan, they have ridden off like headless horsemen into the woods of nullification-even though they call it interposition-and in the pursuit of every evasion of the decree that slick, if not smart, lawyers may devise. Nobody has proposed firing upon Sumter again, but the spirit of secession is there: secession from the moral conscience of the rest of the country and indeed of the world that is giving men of color -who far outnumber us of the white race-their civil rights, their right to be free...
Kirk defined academic freedom as "a body of prescriptive rights assessed by scholars and teachers in educational institutions to help protect them against the hazards incident to the pursuit of truth...