Word: trail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...defensemen, Mike McMahon and Gerry Hefferman disqualified by a new league rule barring players who work in essential war industry, was still close to prewar big-league hockey standards. That was scarcely true of the league's four U.S. teams: Detroit, Chicago, Boston, New York-who might well trail Canada's twosome to the wire in just that order...
...Trail of Defeat. Then Rommel and his Afrika Korps began the downhill trail which many a good general has trod. He was soundly defeated at El Alamein by an even abler general-Sir Bernard L. Montgomery-and by a superiority of power. Even so, his 1,500-mile retreat across North Africa to Tunisia was masterly. Had his career ended then, he might have been one of military history's heroes...
...Weekes with a date up from New Haven and St. Regis College, made the rounds until all hours Saturday. Bob can't wait (with some others of us) until travel restrictions are lifted and he can hit the trail south on weekends...
...headliner of the week was Jeff Hilleran's frantic effort to take off gobs of Don Juan's special mix. Was his face red after ten minutes' work out with a towel. Angle Barsanti was on his trail half the night to warm him but Jeff did an Evangeline on him in the Touraine and eluded Angle by inches...
...Home Stretch. It was the end of the trail for the German commander. He and other generals with remnants of five divisions had tried to dash out of Belgium into Germany to get behind the West Wall. But they had failed. Within 48 hours one U.S. armored and one U.S. infantry division had trapped and virtually destroyed them. Nearly 25,000 prisoners had been taken and two or three thousand killed...