Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Containing the end runs was not the only problem, Yovicsin said. "We've also been working on pursuit." Pursuit simply means chasing the play instead of waiting for it to come...
...danger is that the Church will become bogged down in prevailing cynicism and indifference, Pusey said, and be "victimized by a new humanism, run off in pursuit of another manmade delusion," instead of striving to return men to Christian belief...
Admittedly, Harvard has the type of defense which will yield the short yardage to prevent the long one, but the Crimson pursuit on the line was less than quick, and the defensive ends were invariably being wiped out by the first two blockers leading the play. Big Dave Davis, though not expected to play, joined Skip Sviokla at tackle to put occasional pressure on Marshall...
Such facts do give pause and, considered alone, raise some doubt about Oswald's guilt. But the commission was not trying Oswald in a court of law. It was neither bound by rigid rules of evidence nor, since Oswald was dead, restricted to the judicial pursuit of getting a final verdict. The commission sought only to get the truth, and in so doing borrowed from both the techniques of the trial lawyer's adversary system (crossexamination and critical interrogation) and the historian's approach (applying logic, intuition and intellect to reach deductions from a mass of often...