Word: runarounds
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...name is Red, a 1½-year-old Irish setter, out for his first real hunt. I had him out in the fall of 1945 when he was six months old. Then the birds gave him the runaround. ... He wasn't going to have that happen again. The open season of 1946 arrived, with Red a year older and a bit wiser, but still a pup. The opening day my three partners, Stan, Morey, Jim and myself gave...
Ancient Lure. The musk deer's scent gland, according to Charles Darwin, is the product of an evolutionary runaround. Millions of years ago, the male, deer that smelled the nicest attracted the most females-and thus left the most descendants. A weakly scented male got nowhere as a progenitor...
...probably not all one-sided. The U.S. had reservations, too (e.g., U.S. airmen were briefed to destroy certain devices and documents in the event of forced landings on Russian soil). But, as allies go, the U.S. was certainly openhanded-and in return, its chief representative was snubbed, given the runaround, even scolded. "I was in a high dudgeon much of the time," says General Deane...
...rumpled, tan coat, baggy pants, and a red bandana around his throat, he looks more like a studio hand than a new star. Now about to be given a big Hollywood push, he well remembers his last trip to Hollywood, fresh out of the Army. He got a runaround. Says he: "Boy, it sure beats all the way they throw jobs at you when you finally land a good one, and the way they hide jobs on you when you haven...
Mexican Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla had also "hinted" to the State Department. So had Leo S. Rowe of the Pan American Union. Both got the runaround. According to Under Secretary Edward R. Stettinius Jr., there had been "consultations." But when a TIME reporter asked Latin-American diplomats whether the "consultations" ever worked both ways -with the Latins taking the initiative-he met raised eyebrows and an "Are you kidding?" attitude. Apparently the U.S. State Department intended to speak for the hemisphere...