Word: hunted
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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While Scotland Yard, aided by the professor's daughter and his young colleague, directs a nip & tuck hunt for the man and his bomb, the cabinet secretly orders the machinery of evacuation oiled up. Rumor gives the public a bad case of war jitters. Then, crowded by the professor's deadline, the Prime Minister shares the secret with the people in a tense radio talk. Troops and civil defense workers take over the city; packing only what belongings they can carry by hand, London's millions queue up resolutely to roll out in all directions...
...college publicity officers and I criticized several things about them. I told them democracy was at work when a newspaper covers the news," and the colleges shouldn't try to suppress it, he said. He had good words for the Publicity Bureau at Smith College. "There was a big hunt for a missing Smith girl who was supposed to have eloped and been killed. The publicity office at Smith did everything they could to help me get a picture of the girl. The head of the publicity office said she had a responsibility to the newspapers as well...
...incompleted squash matches yesterday, Eliot's A and B teams were leading the respective Lowell squads, 4 to 0, and 3 to 1. The A league's fifth game will take place tomorrow when Roger Hunt (E) plays Stifel...
...Appeased. By June 1950 Mao, too, was ready to hunt an eagle...
...weeding-out process was partly simplified as some of the hounds got out of touch and ranged clear out of sight over the hills. Other hounds "babbled," i.e., bayed before the scent was picked up, and were promptly disqualified. Still others were thrown out for "loafing" (disinclination to hunt) and for "running cunning" (failing to work the proper trail...