Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...propitious night the attackers assemble all their men and boys over 7 and proceed in single file, each man stepping exactly in the footprints of the one ahead. They carefully keep to one side of the regular, now deadly trail. At dawn the marchers are ready to attack. But the watchdogs have roused the "victims" who join hands and dance to the music of a flute made from a jaguar's leg bone. The music is supposed to make them ferocious as jaguars. As they dance they sing of defiance, contempt, bravery, boasting...
...member of a church, sent out by a church, the missionary is prone to conceive his task as primarily that of promoting this organization. His Board, as a rule, embodies and intensifies this conception; and the missionary is likely to be dominated by the expectations of his Board. . . . The trail of self-interest within the organization lies like the trail of the serpent over the missions of Asia within our purview...
...Correspondent Chesley sent the following account of his expedition: "After about 15 minutes we found their tracks. We followed them for 30 minutes or so through heavy woods and underbrush and then lost them. We looked around a while but couldn't pick up the trail. I told Wise I would go over to the shore to see if the boat was nearby. As I reached a wooded patch near the shore I suddenly found that I was between two lions. I yelled for Wise. He came and shot them. The second one was crouching . . . when Wise shot...
Reporters, sensing that sly old Samuel Insull was at last in full flight, took up the hunt. By the time they had followed the trail to Turin, Samuel Insull was safely on his way to Rome...
...cabin on her place. Here Faulkner drops the gravid mother, goes back & back to Joe Christmas' beginnings. Because he was a bastard with Negro blood in him. little Joe had a hard time from the start. His mad grandfather made it worse by hounding him religiously, lost the trail when Joe grew old enough to commit murder. Down a long Beale Street wandered Joe alone, passing as a white when he wanted to. but hating white and black alike. When they got him for the Burden killing his grandfather caught up with him again, went home happy when...