Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This week Argentine Delegate Dr. Leopoldo Melo was in Washington, where he hoped to wangle an agreement to get into the U. S. some Argentine frozen beef. With such an agreement in his pocket when he returns to Buenos Aires, he may find his country less unwilling to trail along with the U. S. in hemisphere policy...
...member of the Texas Highway Department. Pappy O'Daniel got out his sound truck (with a replica of the Capitol dome on top), hired some more entertainers (including Texas Rose, a girl ballad singer), and put on a two-week whirlwind campaign. In his wake he left a trail of fainting girls and women-sometimes as many as a dozen would be laid out on the truck, prostrated by the crush of O'Daniel handshakers. On Saturday night, after the polls closed, he threw a mammoth party in the Governor's Mansion to celebrate his impending victory...
...many a British "spotter" become that by ear he could tell a squadron of death-pregnant German Heinkels, going out to work, from a flight of British Blenheims returning from work. Meanwhile the Germans adopted new technique: sending a swift, lone leader at high altitude to lay a smoke trail to the objective, which the bombers followed at out-of-sight altitude. This technique was doubtless devised primarily for the benefit of new, sketchily trained German pilots who are sent out en masse with only rudimentary flight instruments simply to follow-their-leader, get home as best they can after...
When Idaho oldtimers last fortnight took a good look at the murals in Boise's new courthouse, they were fit to be tied. The murals, by R. G. Bartlett and Los Angeles WPA workers, showed a cabin on the Oregon Trail-with boarded gables and white New England picket fence; a sissy trapper standing by while an Indian seized his horse. "That may be good art but it isn't true to nature," yelped angry Probate Judge John Jackson. "Any trapper who let an Indian get that close to his horse would be ostracized as unworthy...
There is a chance that, before it reaches this end of the trail, the sun will flare up as a "nova" or new star, increasing in brightness some 200,000 times. So many novae have been spotted in the sky that astronomers believe every normal star may have an outburst at least once in its lifetime. The star may return to its ordinary state and continue its evolution, but if the sun flared up it would vaporize every planet in the solar system. This might happen at any time. However, since the sun has ten billion years...