Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...side would be entitled to stand fast on what it held for the month of peace-if it lasted that long. The most important pre-truce drive was an unsuccessful Israeli effort to reopen the road from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Anticipating failure, the Jews had hacked a primitive trail through the hills south of the main road. There mule trains, jeeps, and slogging men kept a trickle of supplies flowing into Jerusalem. A Jewish commander called it "our Burma Road...
...Abdullah's Legion, they had swept out all Arab forces in "Operation Broom." Last week, in Palestine's oldest kibbutz (communal settlement) south of the Sea of Galilee, stood a fire-blackened Syrian tank, which the Jewish defenders had stopped with a homemade Molotov cocktail. A scorched trail led from the tank to the charred torso of an Arab tankman who had died trying to escape the flames...
...curb and truck and zoomed on past as the disappointed crowd booed. Mayor Nichols ripped the Dewey button from his lapel and replaced it with two Stassen buttons. "This burns me up," he declaimed. "Dewey was pretty small." Gloated Stassen: "Many interesting things have happened on the old Oregon Trail." One interesting fact: the odds on the primary results had dropped from 2-1 in Stassen's favor to even money...
...rich refugees left a trail of alarm and despondency. In the hotels they cursed the British and the Jews ("At least Hitler would have killed them all"). Said one British official in Jerusalem last week: "The whole effendi class has gone. It is remarkable how many of the younger ones are suddenly deciding that this might be a good time to resume their studies at Oxford . . ." Meanwhile, Arab papers trumpeted minor troop shufflings as major victories. When a detachment of Trans-Jordan's Arab Legion took positions around Jericho (under British commanders), one Beirut paper headlined: ABDULLAH...
...blonde mistress in a moment of pique. Too late he recalls that he was seen entering the girl's apartment by a man, identity unknown. The publisher sets out to find the witness. He puts the super-sleuthing editor (Ray Milland) of his detective magazine on the trail. Milland is told that he is after "a payoff man in an enormous war-contract scandal," but it doesn't take him long to find out that he is really chasing himself: he was the witness...