Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years of reporting from abroad, Kansas-born Bell has roamed the world in pursuit of the big stories, and some little ones. On and off he covered the fighting in Korea, the Congo and Viet Nam. Leaving for Korea, he said: "I feel like the firehouse Dalmatian when the bell rings." At Inchon, he became the Korean War's 27th casualty among newsmen when he suffered a fractured arm and chest injuries...
...That Is Necessary." For the present, at least, Johnson seemed convinced that the U.S. had no choice but to intensify the fight in Viet Nam. Last week the President asked Congress for an extra $12.7 billion to underwrite the conflict, with the assurance: "Our pursuit of peace will be constant. We will continue to press on every door. But until there is a response-and until the aggression ends-we must do all that is necessary to support our allies and our own fighting forces in Viet...
Familiar Scenery. Greene's characters follow predestined paths to nowhere, past all the familiar Greeneland scenes: pursuit, betrayal, suicide, failure, adulterous love. Brown is returning to the hotel-emptied of tourists by Papa Doc Duvalier's inhospitable island regime-that he has been unable to sell in the States. Smith, a 1948 U.S. presidential candidate who polled 10,000 votes on the vegetarian ticket, dreams of converting the Haitians to a diet of Yeastrol and Nuttoline. Jones drifts in and out of focus as an ambiguous, flat-footed soldier of fortune so encircled by his enemies that Port...
Combat or Conference. Johnson added that "our decision to stand firm has been matched by our desire for peace" -at which point, many listeners thought that they would hear some news about the peace mission. The President kept mum, but in pursuit of that mission, Vice President Hubert Humphrey last week talked with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin in New Delhi, and Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Ambassador at Large Averell Harriman conferred with South Vietnamese officials in Saigon. As the U.S. stretched to its fourth week the halt on bombings of North Viet Nam, the White House also revealed...
...sculptor: "If I work from life, I see a little bit at a time. And it is al ways changing. Try as I may, it never looks the same to me. So how can I finish?" He became the slave of his own changing perceptions. At times, in pursuit of a likeness, he carved the plaster until it disintegrated into dust between his fingers; at other times he focused only on a foot until it grew to monumental proportions...