Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fleeing 17-year-old reform school parolee, with two Metropolitan District policemen firing in the air a few yards behind him, broke up Business School tranquility at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, climaxing a three-mile auto and foot pursuit in front of Chase Hall...
...point, during the latter stages of the speech, a figure, clad in what appeared to be a raccoon-skin coat and a bear's head mask crept up behind the speaker, almost reaching the edge of the infield before Yard police set out in pursuit. The intruder, bearing a hammer and sickle, retreated over the board fence surrounding the secret football practice field and was not caught by the rapidly advancing forces...
...morning of Pearl Harbor, Henry "The Morgue") Morgenthau Jr., Secretary of the Treasury and nominal head of the Secret Service, rushed to the White House like a county sheriff in pursuit of chicken thieves. "Peering through the White House windows in search of enemy aircraft," he was all for ordering machine guns issued to the Secret Service staff, including the office girls...
...vegetarians, astrologists, freethinkers and other cranks who trailed his friend Percy Bysshe Shelley. Laughing uproariously at their disputes over how to reform the world, he got the notion of putting them into a novel. The result, Headlong Hall (1816), permanently settled the question of Peacock's proper pursuit...
...Pack. The pursuit of political power in a democracy raises curious ethical problems. Although Flynn boasts again & again that his Bronx machine does not buy votes, he tells with disarming candor how he once adapted himself to the prevailing standard of another community...