Word: scalps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into Cambridge yesterday and before today's sun sets behind the Harvard Stadium teepee, the Big Green should have won its first victory on its ill-fated 1950 warpath. For the first time in the 54-year history of the Harvard series, Dartmouth enters the Stadium without a previous scalp but victory should be the Tribe's today...
Meanwhile, Dean Acheson had his message, too, and it also sprayed balm in the general direction of the Communist scalp. The Government is trying in all its words & deeds to make its peaceful intentions toward China clear to the Communist leaders, he told reporters. President Truman has said so, declared Acheson, and we are making it clear through the Voice of America and otherwise...
...Scalp the Savages. Historian (California's Huntington Library) Cleland's story of the hundreds of other daredevil trappers who opened up the Southwest for U.S. expansion is a tribute to some of history's forgotten men. Equipped with half a dozen five-pound beaver traps, a rifle and a tomahawk, such buckskin-clothed trappers as Antoine Robidoux (who built the first trading post west of the Rockies' main range), Joseph Reddeford Walker (discoverer of Yosemite Valley) and Old Bill Williams stared down danger and brought a fortune in furs out of virgin streams. For most...
...honors go-his imperturbable jauntiness and brashness have a decidedly infections quality. He is a past master of the "slow burn"-the process of catching on to a situation slowly and reflecting this in a radical change of facial expression. Here is where Chevalier's twitching eyebrows and sliding scalp work an hard that they aboost earn feature billing...
June. In Miami, Fred H. Kautzmann charged that the James Drug Shop had mixed two prescription labels, causing him for the past year to rub stomach medicine on his scalp and drink his hair tonic...