Word: snakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mile Oregon Trail, traveled by so many wagons that their rutted tracks remained imprinted on the wilderness for decades, the pioneers fared worst along the fearsome Snake River valley...
...series called Items on the Grand Account, 63-year-old Elliot Paul's leisurely recital of his life and times. Paul was 19 and bumming through the Far West on close to his last dime in the summer of 1910, when the Jackson Lake Dam, spanning the Snake River in northwest Wyoming, went out. With an engineering brother in the family and some previous surveying experience of his own, Paul found it easy to land on the payroll of the Reclamation Service and work on the new dam. Desperate Scenery tells the rough-and-rugged story...
Amphibious Oil. The oilmen have approached the sea by easy stages, meeting it first in the Mississippi delta, where land and sea are interlaced. Winding bayous snake through the land, connecting brackish lakes only a few feet deep. What looks like land is often sea with tall grass growing up through...
Sheep and Snake...
Asked whether McCarthy has weakened the State Department, Fairbank termed the Wisconsin Senator a symptom. "The intellectuals are sheep hypnotized by a snake. The loss of China gave the United States a sense of insecurity. It is this lack of self-confidence which McCarthy can prey upon. The thing to worry about is not McCarthy, but the American people...