Word: moccasin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Campbell stayed quiet long enough to stake 30 claims. Another prospector, Norbert Miller of Toronto, saw him staking, guessed what was up. As the word spread along what prospectors call "the moccasin trail," the rush started. In no time 500 claims had been staked around Campbell's. When Campbell's ore samples showed a 60% content of radioactive mineral and 99% of it uranium (10% is considered pay dirt), the boom went skyhigh...
Crimson cross-country runners couldn't keep up with the moccasin clad Dartmouth warriors at Hanover yesterday. Streaking through the woods, the Indians out-classed Jaakko Mikkola's squad and ran off with a 151/2-471/2 win. The Dartmouth Papooses outran the Freshmen in the junior meet...
...Grace Wiley had never been afraid, she handled her reptiles patiently and lovingly, filled one room of her Cypress, Calif, home with over a hundred of them: King and Queen, the cobras; Roxy, the nine-foot python; Perky, the water moccasin. They made her hobby, her life's study and her reputation as one of the nation's top herpetologists. Last week she readily agreed to pose for pictures with her newest pet: a five-foot cobra she had just received from India...
...will board the sturdy H.B.C. supply ship Nascopie at Montreal, which will arrive at treeless Arctic Bay in September, bringing coal and food for the post, fresh fruit, gasoline, medical and dental supplies, 20 new books for the library, the latest copies of the company magazines, the Beaver and Moccasin Telegraph...
...citizenry of Chattanooga, Tenn., eternally picketed by statues commemorating Civil War battles, planned a $500,000 memorial park on the Tennessee River's Moccasin Bend...