Word: traced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World's Heavyweight Champion, who ruled the division for 11 years with 22 knockouts in 25 title defenses, outboxed the 23-year-old South American aspirant, but failed to show any trace of his one-time bombs that formerly laid his opponents low. The verdicts of referee Frank Gilmor and the two judges were in almost complete accord. The judges voted 55 to 45 for Louis, with Referee Gilmor balloting 56 to 44 for the former titleholder...
Sure enough, the troubles of both girls trace straight back to their parents. Mother Reynolds is a hysterical hypochondriac who alternates between self-pity and a sense of guilt about being an inadequate mother. Father Reynolds, reluctant to admit middle age, fumes because his wife no longer understands him. In their own subconscious reactions to the family tensions, the girls go off on rocky tangents: Marjorie into a vapid affair with a college boy, Sally into a dash to New York after her father shocks her with an ardent...
...piled in, along with half a dozen large suitcases. As the bus entered the city, the Pontecorvo boy asked again, "Are we now in Russia?" Just outside the Finnish Airways office in the Esplanade, the bus stopped. The Pontecorvos picked up a taxicab and sped off. After that, no trace...
...name I trace...
Playwright Tennessee Williams' first novel shows no trace of the warmth and grotesque humor that made The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire into first-class stage hits. It is written in the gutless, languid, pseudo-Jamesian manner which has become the trademark of such young novelists as Truman Capote and Frederick Buechner. In fact, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone would seem to make Tennessee Williams a member in good, if junior, standing of the new school of decadence...