Word: pursuit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: As a U.S. Marine, I am not in the habit of begging anyone for anything, but there is one thing I will beg for. I beg my fellow citizens to give the loyal Japanese-Americans their God-given right to the life, liberty and pursuit of happiness that, I sincerely hope, is guaranteed by our Constitution...
Modern scientists have been able to study ever smaller particles of matter. Recently the pursuit of the infinitesimal reached a new vanishing point. An R.C.A. microphysicist developed an instrument which can analyze the atomic composition of a particle as small as a millionth of a billionth of a gram...
Chennault was a pursuit pilot with ideas. His famed stunt team (the "Three Men on a Flying Trapeze") thrilled air-meet crowds. But its purpose was serious: to impress on the Air Corps the value of precision pursuit operation. The conservative Air Corps command paid little or no attention to these and other Chennault ideas...
Russian military observers offered him $10,000 a year to go to Russia as military adviser and pursuit instructor. He turned the offer down, stuck with Billy Mitchell and a few other pioneers through years of frustration and discouragement...
Disillusioned, Eh? When a woman wrote a letter telling how she had roped a husband by cajolery and bold pursuit, and now found herself "disillusioned" and "unhappy," Mary Haworth sizzled: "All things considered, it is quite amazing that your husband has stayed with you this long...