Word: pursuit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doubled to more than 650. The newcomers were males. Dubkin sensed procreation, but nothing happened for a while. Then one day (night, that is, for the bats) he noted a "nervous tension." The air was full of pairs of bats zigzagging round the tree trunk. After three days of pursuit and flight, the bats reached their understandings. They hung in pairs, by their feet, caressing each other with wings and tongues, then retired into the greenery. Dubkin had discovered from researches in the public library that actual fertilization would not be accomplished until spring, after the bats' hibernation...
...Castle, The Citadel, The Keys of the Kingdom) is a zealous Scots Catholic who is never happier than when he is drawing moral conclusions from immoral behavior. But until he was 34, Cronin suppressed his urge to self-expression and buried himself in the "sensible . . . safe and practical" pursuit of medicine. The result was just the opposite of what Dr. Cronin had hoped it would be: the more patients he attended, the more he "kept thinking . . . what stories I could make of them...
Salvation. In Mtwara, Tanganyika, Mr. & Mrs. Richard Barton ran all the way to church, got inside the door just in time to escape the lion in pursuit...
...there is much ty be said for Michelangelo's accusation that Leonardo squandered the greatest of his gifts-his genius as an artist. Antonina Vallentin concludes, in her excellent biography, that it was the "tragic pursuit of perfection" that kept Leonardo moving restlessly from field to field. First published in the '30s, and re-issued now for the sooth anniversary of Leonardo's birth, the book comes at a natural moment for a valuation of the great Florentine's life & work...
...course there is no question of the right of American citizens to organize in pursuit of their common convictions. I realize that Senator Lodge and his associates are exercising this right in an attempt to place before me next July a duty that would transcend my present responsibility. In the absence, however, of a clear-cut call to political duty, I shall continue to devote my full attention . . . to the task to which I am assigned...