Word: pursuit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this week's cover story on Prime Minister Anthony Eden and the British general election campaign, half a dozen TIME correspondents took to the hustings in pursuit of Tory, Labor and Liberal candidates of all ranks. In Scotland to cover Nye Bevan's tour, the London bureau's Robert Lubar wondered how the Laborite rebel would like being shadowed by a U.S. newsman. As it turned out, Bevan liked it fine. He began by taking Lubar to task for what he said was TIME'S rough treatment of him. "But you thrive on it," Lubar remarked...
...winning ways won the heart of Queen Victoria and strengthened the foundations of the Entente Cordiale. His muddled pursuit of one of his uncle's favorite foreign-policy dreams led to the unification of Italy. He gave France its first legal trade unions and old-age pensions. Above all, his determination to give Paris a Napoleonic splendor resulted in the city's spacious boulevards...
Long engaged in scholarly pursuit, the men of Princeton are currently investigating that fine American institution of "Big Men on Campus." Harvard could perhaps offer them a variety of such gentlemen if there were not a language difficulty, but, even so, a far more absorbing area is available for their scrutiny. It is the state of Louisiana, which might well be the final word in these matters. Louisiana, is a beautiful state, and it abounds in bayous, New Orleans, and, of course, B.M.O.C...
Both publishers were without fear of being out of step with their readers or unpopular in the pursuit of their convictions. They tried to lead, even at moments when they had few followers behind them. From their convictions and their determination to tell the truth, rather than their power of the moment, they drew their journalistic strength. Such devotion to independent newspapering- when they were right and when they were wrong-immeasurably enriched not only U.S. journalism but the pursuit of the news and truth everywhere...
...Grand Canyon, likes to see her nouns buttressed by stout adjectives like "fatuous," "obscene" and "idiotic"; even "bitchery" is in her vocabulary. At worst, her hardbitten prose is that of an obsessive governess threatening children with hellfire; at best, it expresses an energetic mind absorbed in the pursuit of common sense and justice. In A Train of Powder Author West examines with Old Testament sternness some recent efforts to bring malefactors before...