Word: pursuit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little better perspective. This turnover of command this morning, which has a rather important place in my thinking and in General Gruenther's . . . really doesn't make much difference to the rest of the world-they're bound for a weekend devoted to the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness...
...star with Lion Trainer Clyde Beatty of the 3-D film Man-Killer. His main screen assets: a squint, a crew cut, 5 ft. 8 in. of muscles. Spillane, in the manner of his hero, gore-spilling Private Eye Mike Hammer, will play a detective in hot pursuit of a homicidal maniac...
...Evelyn Keyes) under one arm, and under the other an atomic spy. The colonel figures that if he buddies up to one spy he might run down a lot of others. Well, cars full of sincere-looking extras-Scotland Yard men, who resent McCrea's interference-roar in pursuit, and platoons of snaky-looking loungers, the agents of "a foreign power," lie in wait. Alfred Hitchcock might have zipped his man through them all as niftily as a gamma ray through a cream puff, but Hero McCrea has no such luck. The Yard men catch him, the loungers snatch...
When the first British reinforcements arrived in beleaguered Pusan, many Americans thought so. Their confidence waned as the U.S. and its allies fell out over the conduct of the war. The first squall arose when Douglas MacArthur wanted U.N. authority for crossing the 38th parallel in pursuit of the North Koreans. In studiedly vague language, the General Assembly authorized the Eighth Army to "insure stability in Korea," and bring about "a unified, independent and democratic government." The vote was 47-5 (the Russian bloc), but India and six other Asian and Arab nations parted company with the U.S., because...
...London apartment, robbery-prone (three times in four years) Skating Star Sonja Henie woke with a scream, then dashed into the street in a barefoot, unsuccessful pursuit of thieves who had stripped her bedroom of an Aleutian mink coat ($18,000), an ermine coat ($7,000), a mink jacket ($3,500), two gold compacts, $840 in cash...