Word: pursuit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both Dewey and Warren have been charged with being somewhat insensitive to the means which they have employed in pursuit of their righteous ends. In 1930, when Warren set out to indict some Oakland city officials for graft, he well knew that if the indictment did not come off, he would be charged with engineering a whitewash. Accordingly, he released daily transcripts of the grand jury testimony to the press - a clear law violation - to show that he was doing his utmost. Happily for him, the indictment and convictions followed...
Diagnosis: the inalienable political rights of this Republic have protected Life and Liberty all right, but "have proved inadequate to assure equality in the Pursuit of Happiness...
Behind Zhitomir he had been hoarding vast masses of tanks. When Vatutin's mobile columns outraced their artillery and infantry support, Manstein struck. With more than 1,600 tanks in pursuit, the Russians abandoned Zhitomir, fled across the flat, muddy terrain. Kiev itself was in peril...
Triumph Complete. News of the victory was an extra fillip to the British public, still savoring the destruction of the Scharnhorst. Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser reported that his victory north of Norway was due in large part to the daring attack and pursuit of the German ship by cruisers and destroyers, which slowed the Scharnhorst and brought her to bay under the 14-inch guns of his flagship, Duke of York...
...Thunderbolts and Lightnings changed that-for most missions, bombers now have pursuit escort...