Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...compressor wafts the scent of the dead rabbit down the pipe to Freddie's eager nose. Released, Freddie scuttles up the pipe in pursuit of the rabbit, and, simultaneously, lays the wiring. In one morning recently, Freddie laid wiring in 60 pipes, the longest of which was 130 ft. By hand, the job would have taken a human electrician a month, cost...
...those who are in earnest about this pursuit, couches are unnecessary...
...scrimped and saved enough to get battery radios and now keep up with current events and national issues with as much interest as you do. The discussions sometimes get a bit gusty, but I'd rather listen in on some of these sessions than sit in on The Pursuit of Happiness round table which LIFE ran. These people are really pursuing happiness. They are trying to get the last drop of pleasure out of life. Yet they have changed their outlook considerably since they have good books and magazines to read...
...clicking along like the southbound express when it develops a hotbox. Payne is far too successful as a lady-killer. He has a hard time convincing the widow that he is not part of the memorial package he is trying to sell, and he cannot escape the relentless pursuit of a gun moll named Tory (Shelley Winters...
Bound by that stern poetic creed, Louisiana Story traces a symbolic story. The wallowing amphibious machines of an oil company invade the idyllic peace of a Louisiana bayou. Flaherty juxtaposes a tense chase sequence-alligator v. coon in the swamp water-and the tumultuous pursuit of oil by the monster, man-made drilling derricks which can plunge pipes 14,000 feet into the earth. Throughout this blending of themes, the bonds of humanity between oil riggers and a Cajun boy illumine the recurrent thesis of Flaherty's works: "Mankind is one community...