Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dozens of planes are overhead, P-51s, P-38s, B-25s and P-40s. The first pursuit peels off. The bomb lets go and an orange flash and a grey puff of smoke blossom out. A few seconds later the sound reaches us-whambo-and the air rocks. The others follow in line, one after the other-flash, puff, whambo; flash, puff, whambo-until the last plane turns away...
There is nothing wrong with its basic story-Miss Durbin's transcontinental pursuit of the officer she thinks she loves, by covered wagon (the year is 1849); ner Senator father's (Ray Collins) pursuit of her; her ultimate discovery that she really loves her traveling companion (Robert Paige), a cardsharp. In fact, that sort of easy foolishness might make just the right sort of clothesline to hang a beautiful show on. But such a show needs delicate direction, which can kid it along over the bigger, sillier bumps, and make every possible use of its natural beauty. There...
...least four divisions of Lieut. General Alexander M. Patch's Seventh Army wedged warily into the Bavarian Palatinate. The Seventh's week of advance was more a careful pursuit than a driving offensive. The enemy fought small-scale delaying actions (the Americans took only 2,707 prisoners during the week) as they withdrew from vulnerable points in France to their Siegfried Line of forts and forests...
...pint-sized, 45-year-old Billy Rose, The Seven Lively Arts is merely one more exhibit in a great glass-enclosed Hall of Showmanship already crowded with displays. Billy today is Broadway's most spectacular if least likely-looking impresario, in whose brashness, love of effect, and shameless pursuit of publicity lie real daring, an instinct for the effective, a canny knowledge of the public...
...rather than the individual is the central figure in it. The fates of the underground soldiers were dwarfed by the depthless misery and heroism of the people they served. When Story of a Secret State is not an adventure story, it is often hackneyed. When it tells of flight, pursuit, escape, triumph, it carries conviction in every incident. Its killings are coldblooded, its sorrows without tears. Dziepatowski, Karski's violinist friend, was caught and executed after he had killed a German agent in a Warsaw washroom. Borecki was caught, could not get the poison from his signet ring...