Word: pursuit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among Britain's country gentry, the sport of fox hunting has survived socialism, automobiles, electric fences and the gibes of wits like Oscar Wilde, who mocked it as "the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable...
...surrender his formula only in time of war or dire necessity. Meanwhile Christopher's chief assistant-who is in love with Christopher's wife-talks too much to a white-tied foreign gentleman, and Christopher is kidnaped. He soon returns, unharmed, perhaps because Playwright Morgan prefers the pursuit of ideas to a mere manhunt; the only remaining action is that the assistant, for fear of blabbing again, nobly swallows poison...
...opinion of foreign schools. The presence of foreign students here is admitted to be valuable; why not the presence of American students who have spent a year abroad? It is strange that in a world desperately in need of internationalism, one of the leading institutions of the most international pursuit, scholarship, should in this matter be maintaining such unbending restrictions...
Commanding General Sir George Erskine sent his 39th Brigade in pursuit. The crack Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers caught one Mau Mau detachment at a river crossing, ambushed another in the Maragua Valley. In this valley alone, the Fusiliers bagged 76 Mau Mau. The R.A.F. strafed and bombed the Mau Mau remnants as they fell back to their forests, and the British soon had them cornered on a wooded hill known as Blarney Castle. Mau Mau losses in the battle so far: 197 killed, including two "generals." Total British loss: three wounded...
...enormous growth of Florida's citrus industry has been paralleled by big gains in the relatively new pursuit (for Florida) of raising cattle. Until a few years ago, gunfights crackled over the Florida countryside in the best tradition of the West. But now 1,500,000 acres of good cattle land and 1,386.000 head of beef cattle are fenced in under the watchful eyes of Seminole Indian cowhands, and order reigns. Said 77-year-old Agriculture Commissioner Nathan Mayo: "We used to have nothing but scrawny herds of 4-H cattle−hide, hair, hoof and horns...