Word: trail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Agents on the trail of a phony farmer saw a hand in a haystack, pulled out their quarry, who explained: "I was just getting ready to give myself...
...week bookkeeper, was suddenly and dramatically cleared; proved, at last, was the fact that he had not been the forger. The culprit was none other than Alexander D. L. Thiel, the horseplaying, narcotic-spurred wizard of forgery who in some 40 years had left a $500,000 trail of bogus checks over the U.S. (TIME, April...
...Americans, too, had paid. Example: the 32nd Infantry Division's battle for Villa Verde Trail had been one of the bloodiest in U.S. Army history. In 119 days of almost constant fighting, the 32nd lost 1,051 killed, 3,201 wounded, 14 missing-4,266 in all. And the final count was still to be made...
...came from tiny St. Mary's, on the Gulf Coast, and when she was born (in 1881) many an aging Texan still remembered the Alamo. Her father, Cattleman Bob Driscoll, was just beginning to compound his $10 million empire out of equal parts of land and oil and trail-driven herds...
...Wewak sector of New Guinea, 6th Division troops last week finally managed to breast the Prince Alexander Ranges, take a village and an important track (i.e., trail) junction. But progress promised to be slower now: behind imposing fortifications, the opposition of perhaps 70,000 remaining New Guinea Japs stiffened sharply...