Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...happened by. Caril Fugate leaped out of the car and ran screaming to the deputy. In the confusion Starkweather climbed into his stolen Packard, sped away as Deputy Romer radioed ahead for a roadblock. Starkweather raced through the roadblock at better than 100 m.p.h. with the cops in hot pursuit, stopped when a police rifle bullet ripped through the Packard and shattered the windshield...
...losing movies (The Swan, Somebody Up There Likes Me), he was fired as production chief of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, suspected that the firing was due in part to his support of Adlai Stevenson. Schary had stumped for Stevenson in the 1952 and 1956 campaigns, also produced the doctrinaire film, Pursuit of Happiness, for the Democratic National Committee...
...theory) relatively more than they have today under high wage scales? Or, if the redistribution of capital were sizable enough to make a real difference, would there be enough capital concentration for new enterprise? Furthermore, the K. & A. vision of a coupon-clipping mass aristocracy engaged in "the pursuit of civilization" may be hard on men without the taste or the IQ to qualify for it. Indeed, in implying the indignity of labor and downgrading "the pursuit of wealth," K. & A. may unwittingly be removing the intellectual pistons that keep capitalism functioning as a great wealth-producer...
...Pursuit of the Graf Spee (Powell and Pressburger; Rank) is a good sea story, not very well told; but there are moments when it holds, like a sea shell, the soundIng memory of the waves Britannia used to rule...
...featured role. Ike spoke briefly at the beginning and end of the program, reading from a rough text which he had written out during the afternoon. Said he of the NATO meeting: "There was one basic purpose implicit in every discussion and debate of the conference. That was the pursuit of a just peace. Not once during the week did I hear any slightest hint of saber-rattling or of aggressive intent. Of course, all of us were concerned with developing the necessary spiritual, economic and military strength of our defensive alliance...