Word: stalk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...among men, whom he called "the least interesting of all animals." A devoted herpetologist, he discovered four new species of snakes and hunted down 22 rare species of mammals for the world's zoos and museums. Even after his legs were amputated because of illness, he continued to stalk the bush-in a wheelchair...
...never been a one-man organization. Nonetheless, just as the Macy's customer has become the prototype of the shopper, Straus has become the archetype of the shrewd retailer. Straus zeroed in on what he called his "bull's-eye" (middle-income) clientele, liked to stalk around the floors to check on the sales people and inspect the merchandising for taste...
That is how much of the world beyond its borders feels about the U.S. today. All too widely, the country is regarded as a blood-drenched, continent-wide shooting range where toddlers blast off with real rifles, housewives pack pearl-handled revolvers, and political assassins stalk their victims at will...
BRECHT: Quite right of course, and I only meant to take his side because there is always another side to be taken. To see some upshot of your imagination stalk about, even limp about...
Soviet warships and electronic intelligence trawlers stalk U.S., British and other Western fleets far from the shores of the Soviet Union. Soviet subs and destroyers shadow the U.S. carriers in the Mediterranean, keeping a watch offshore when the carriers go into port and taking up the chase again when they come out. A fleet of espionage ships keeps watch off U.S. Polaris submarine bases at such places as Holy Loch in Scotland, Rota in Spain and Charleston, S.C. Other snoopers sit off Seattle, New England, and Cape Kennedy, where the Soviets monitor the U.S. space shots...