Word: traced
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Powers, in the hope of getting his ten-year prison sentence reduced, written the letter to please his jailers? Had they even written the letter for him? No one could say, for Powers himself was nowhere in sight, and the New York Times could find no trace of any such letter in its mailbox...
...Martin records and their own personnel clearance policies. NSA farms out the major part of its security checks to military intelligence agencies, and when the two men first came to work, neither the Office of Naval Intelligence nor the Air Force's Office of Special Investigations found a trace of trouble on their records...
...seemed to the art collector from New York that he had tramped over every inch of the craggy Maine peninsula called Prout's Neck, but he could not find a trace of the famous resident he was looking for. Finally he spotted an old fisherman in rubber boots and battered hat. "I say. my man," he called, "if you tell me where I can find Winslow Homer. I have a quarter for you." "Where's your quarter?" snapped the old fisherman, and the stranger quickly handed one over. The fisherman took it, carefully dropped it into his pocket...
...plane when he was 17. During World War II, air-struck Bob Hester inevitably joined the Air Corps. On Dec. 6, 1943, the B-24 that he was co-piloting disappeared in a raging storm over the Sierra Nevada. Search parties could find no trace of the plane or of its six-man crew...
...child is sure to carry the defect. But there are many twilight-zone genes, which some individuals carry without showing ill effects but may pass on, in crippling form, to their offspring. Then there are recessive genes, which may be so elusive that the experts cannot hope to trace cause and effect...