Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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ANIMALS Blaze's Trail Lieut. Herbert Barnett was as happy as a soldier could be. He was back in the U.S. last week after months in the South Pacific. His two dogs, nicely crated and tagged with their No. 1 priorities, were stowed away beside him on the plane. He lounged, watching the good earth below. Somebody said something about "royal pets." The Lieutenant turned. His fellow passengers were glaring at him. What could the matter be? The cold stares slid over him like a glacier...
Western Words is a dictionary of 3,000 expressions, many still current, "of the range, cowcamp and trail." It begins with ace in the hole, meaning either a shoulder holster or a hideout, and it ends with zorrillas, cattle of the early longhorn breed...
...their horses into a New Mexico saloon where an Eastern drummer was having a drink. When the drummer complained to the bartender that the horses jostled him, the bartender snorted, "What the hell y'u doin' in here afoot, anyhow?" When two friendly riders met on the trail, they stopped and sooner or later swung off their horses, squatted on their bootheels, began scratching in the dirt with broomweed stalks. "A cowhand kin jes' talk better when he's a-scratchin' in the sand like a hen in a dung heap." This was known...
...legendary great tailgate trombonists.* A little over a decade ago, thoroughly discouraged by the rising popularity of big-orchestra sweetness ("I figured I couldn't live off jazz"), he dropped out of sight. This week, after more than two years of shuffling up the comeback trail, the Kid and his slippery, sliding trombone were sitting pretty again...
...along the spine of the Carpathians in eastern Slovakia. Before Prešov, General Ivan Petrov had opened up in the orthodox manner, bracketing the slopes with shells as if in preparation for attack. But he sent a large column to cut in behind the enemy, over a mountain trail. He knew the trail would be heavily mined, that his men would take losses. They did. They also took...