Word: pursuit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...needle will do the trick; often it takes a bit of both. Testimony from Tunis. Only last month, said a French delegate, he had been asked to treat a bull suffering from "a hopeless case of sterility." After the bull got the needles, he went charging off in pursuit of four cows. And, said the puncturist, two of the cows are already in calf. A Tunisian specialist reported the case of a man, aged 30, suffering from depression, pains in the legs and sexual debility. He got one gold needle in the left chest (at point chungju...
Professional Career: First command: 6th Pursuit Squadron, Hawaii, 1929, where he won a reputation as one of the service's best aerial gunners. In 1927 he was assigned to fly as Richard Arlen's double in the crash sequence of Wings. In 1939 he went into the Air Corps plans division, where General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz was his "boss; was awarded the DSM three years later for his work on World War II air plans; became a brigadier general. In 1943, appointed Chief of Staff of the Northwest African Strategic Air Forces, won the DFC and Silver Star...
...like a tackled halfback, under a swarm of enemy. When four husky Chinese began dragging him away, the other Americans held their fire for fear of hitting their own man. But Bennett wrenched free, knocked one Chinese down, and ran for his own outfit, with several Reds in hot pursuit. Bennett yelled for covering fire, and a U.S. machine gunner dropped the Chinese who were chasing him. Five yards from the shelter of a dike, a rifle bullet smashed Bennett's elbow. Nevertheless, he made it to the dike...
...Cervises hid the whole bundle, but later they forgot their trust long enough to hand over the toilet-paper diary to a Milan newspaperman. Its publication in 1946 put the police, the press and Clara's relatives (selfexiled in Spain to avoid embarrassing investigations at home) in hot pursuit of the rest of her possessions and revelations...
...overspecialization, which "focuses on details and never comes to grips with real issues"; 3) the idea that "education is primarily concerned with the communication of knowledge, whereas it is actually the communication of intellectual power"; 4) the worship of facts: "Pursuit of the truth is undoubtedly the highest function of the university, but that is not synonymous with scientific research...