Word: trailed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...innocence and idealism of word and deed. Modeled on Buchan's Oxford friends and fellow World War I officers, they were created in a time when aristocratic and gentlemanly virtues were still fashionable and younger sons sought fame at the four corners of the world. For them, the trail of anything, even an idea, is always a "spoor." Girls, when they appear, and they appear seldom, are customarily wholesome and boyishly slim. Men are lean and shy (of sex and praise, anyway...
...good Dutch food and Gemütlichkeit. When his reporters came back to report failure on an assignment, he wordlessly drew from his desk drawer a Sherlock Holmes deerstalker cap, bulldog pipe and magnifying glass, and snooped around the floor on his knees, as if searching for a lost trail. To an upstate Tribune correspondent whose copy stood in sore need of punctuation, Walker sent a full page of commas. His ways were not without their effect...
...Chinese say the plateau is theirs is that Aksai Chin means "China's Desert of White Stone"), leading from Tibet around the hump of the lofty Kunlun range to the Chinese province of Sinkiang. In 1956 and 1957 the Chinese built a paved road over the caravan trail, and so lightly did Indian border police patrol the area that New Delhi did not learn about the road until two years after it was built...
Cowboys liked to think they were beholden to no one. The Lone Star Trail is full of defiance in the saddle...
...Times assigned two men to cover the gubernatorial campaign-Greenberg and the paper's other political reporter, Richard Bergholz, 45. The two alternated on the trail of Nixon and incumbent Governor Pat Brown. Greenberg's reporting was so neutral that he was met with equal cordiality by both camps...