Word: pursuit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Middle East with Fereydoun Ala, the son of the Iranian Prime Minister, and his brother-in-law, Narcy Firouz. Driving through Iran in September, natives told them about a herd of Dziggetais, the onager's Persian name. When the travelers saw a group of 30, they dashed in pursuit in a jeep. Potter said that the tactics used were to drive along side one of the running animals and then, "Lean out, hug him around the neck, and let him pull you out. He soon tires. Then you threw him to the ground and rope...
Communism is a philosophy of power, even when it lacks power; the West is committed to the pursuit of truth, even when it cannot be reached. When these facts are put together in a debate (which demands respect for truth) over an issue of war (which demands respect for power), the result is likely to be a Sargasso Sea of lies, confusion and boredom...
...want of a middle name, New ' Delhi Correspondent Alexander Campbell almost lost a lap in his pursuit of Russia's carpetbagging Bulganin and Khrushchev (see FOREIGN NEWS). Campbell's father had intended, 43 years ago, to name his first-born Alexander MacLean, but he forgot the MacLean at the christening. "Now," says our correspondent, "there are thousands of Alexander Campbells, and lots of them are journalists, including one who much annoyed the Burmese after World War II, allegedly by participating in a rebellion...
...pursuit of her new duties, Indira has ordered daily rehearsals for New Delhi's schoolchildren in throwing flowers and shouting "welcome" in preparation for next week's visit of Russia's Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolai Bulganin. Last week her trained tots got a run-through welcoming the visiting King of Nepal. And close observers noticed a new recurrent phrase in India's press. Instead of the customary "enthusiastic masses" greeting Nehru, the phrase has become "enthusiastic but disciplined masses greeted Prime Minister Nehru and Mrs. Indira Gandhi...
...winter day, in pursuit of sport, Gilmore and Perkins went ice skating together on the frozen Charles. Gilmore trod upon thin ice. Waist-level and below, in fact, his usual composure was seriously threatened. But from the waist up, Myron Gilmore was still unruffled. Characteristically, he was able to rise above most of the crisis. He had fallen only halfway through...