Word: traced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rome has celebrated Ferragosto for some 2,000 years. Most historians trace its origin to the three-day jeriae augustales (holidays of Augustus) proclaimed in 29 B.C. in honor of the triumphant return of Caesar Augustus from his campaign against Antony and Cleopatra. Some say it has even earlier beginnings. Six centuries later it became a universal Roman Catholic holiday, celebrating the anniversary of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary into heaven...
...pictures. Suddenly the cabin door popped open and the plane yawed. When Mrs. Capellaro's husband turned to look at his wife, she was gone-sucked from the pressurized cabin through the open hatch and, after a fall of approximately one minute and 25 seconds, dropped without a trace into the ocean...
...France, who were backed by government " funds, came equipped with their own weathermen and radio crews that promptly dispatched retrieving trailers to landing points. But the U.S. team, forced to pay its own way, had no radios and had to rely on the strictly unilingual Spanish telephone system to trace its pilots. Some of them, down in isolated spots, waited hours before getting back to Madrid...
...trace this monolithic concentration on usage is to pursue a vicious circle . . . The literate public seems to get it from the English teachers, and the teachers get it from the public . . . A phony standardization of usage appears in print, the work of editors unconscious of the ultimate meaning of what they...
Fire officials said they could not trace these two calls, but suspected "Jokers" who were playing on the department's tenseness over the fires that occurred here last week...