Word: trail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enemy through the jungle, ominous enough in peace, multiplies nerve tension: "Tiny noises became exaggerated in our minds. Drops of accumulated drizzle would crash down onto fallen leaves like heavy footfalls. The click of a canteen cover belonging to one of our own men at some point where the trail doubled back beyond a screen of jungle sounded like a whole machine gun being...
...gilt hero flits from Broadway to Banff, a cozy little hideout of 2000 rooms in the western Rockies, hot on the trail of his lost sweetheart. The routine is well known by now--continental chase ending amidst nature's wonders. But this time nature complicates things by throwing in a bevy of assorted wolves as only Cesar Romero, Carmen Miranda, and something from the Los Angeles zoo can portray the species. Between the antics of these over-anxious characters, the screen is filled with dancer John in chase and partner Betty oh-so undecided about the whole thing...
...Trail. First the FBI picked up Nelson and Stewart. Then, with FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover directing, it laid careful traps around the two North Side apartments. One night last week the traps were sprung...
...going when he first got his orders) and there are many occasions in Rio where officers appear in civilian clothes, he appeared at his first cocktail party in a white suit borrowed from a waiter. He has been to nightclubs only twice, but is constantly on the trail of hamburgers: "What wouldn't I give for a hamburger?" He spent Christmas in bed with desarranjo (bowel discord...
Another novelty for Eastern skidoodlers is an automatic timer. Downhill runners on the Green Mountain's Whippersnapper Trail, by dropping a coin in a box at the starting line, can find their time-registered in split seconds-in a box at the finish line...