Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pitcher to achieve that since Dizzy Dean won 30 for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1934. "I would have to win almost every start the rest of the way and pick up some in relief," says Koufax. With the Dodgers clinging to a thin lead and three teams in pursuit, Manager Walt Alston was thinking along exactly those lines...
Iowa Republican Bourke Hicken-looper, ranking G.O.P. member of the Foreign Relations Committee: "We're in the quicksand and we've got to get out. The Senate is quite generally-practically universally-in support of a vigorous pursuit of this situation in Viet Nam. There's a difference between approval and support. Many things and actions that have happened have not met with my approval. We may be injuring our cause somewhat by the constant and repeated assertions that we want to settle-which we do. But I'm afraid we create the idea that...
...totally preoccupied with the war-and with his pursuit of peace. He sits in his office, fists clenched in front of him to illustrate his aims to aides. "I told McNamara that he's my righthand punch," he says. "I told him to take the power of this country and with it keep our word and our honor and protect the lives of our boys to the maximum extent possible. I told Rusk and Goldberg that they're my lefthand punch...
...inflamed by the nearness of her murderous menfolk that he begins biting buttons off her dress. Another stylishly funny sequence, indebted to Fellini, drums up elegant corruption at a villa where a deaf aristocrat's mistress (Marisa Mell) tries to persuade Mastroianni to kill for her. In pursuit of the lady, he is ferried languidly along a stream, statues and bridges crumbling ominously in his wake...
...time I was four, I realized I would be a dwarf," he says. And when he was five, the trouble was diagnosed-chondrodystrophy, a rare form of nonhereditary dwarfism believed to be caused by a chemical imbalance during gestation. Undaunted, Dunn terrified his parents by tearing off in hot pursuit of a normal childhood. He did not quite get one, but he managed to break his nose playing football and his leg ice-skating, and he almost drowned when, at ten, he jumped off a 36-ft.-high diving board before he had learned to swim...