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Word: trailing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Press. Mr. Roosevelt did not have to take any trail-blazing chances when he adopted the terms of specific U.S. responsibility abroad. He followed a trail blazed by Walter Lippmann, the New York Times, LIFE, many another commentator and journal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Above All | 1/29/1945 | See Source »

...secret ambition engendered many months ago sent the battalion on the trail of one Ruth Fillipetti this week. Having been duly authorized by Anton de Hasse, Harvard professor of Foreign and Domestic Relations, we take some pride in announcing the winner in the Boston-wide search...

Author: By Jack T. Shindler, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 1/19/1945 | See Source »

...granulated it and scattered it on the camp's graveled grounds. Authorities, reluctantly admiring the secret tunnel, soon suspected an additional evidence of Nazi cunning. Three more prisoners were caught, and all were enlisted men. They began to seem suspiciously like decoys, pledged to lay down a false trail, then surrender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Escape in Arizona | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

...Every Canadian Customs officer knows very well, deep down in his heart, that the car driver is a liar. One has only to trail a 'tourist' of this type up the street and into the nearest gas station. He collects his twelve gallons, surrenders his permit, and within 15 minutes he's heading back . . . to Detroit. This is going on not only in Windsor, but at every border-crossing point in Canada, † We're giving our gas to gyppers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: Gyp Trippers | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

...heady smell of horses, leather, manure and stable antiseptics has fortified many a gypsy horse owner and trainer against the stress of staying half a jump ahead of the sheriff. Often as not there is no rainbow at the end of the trail. For little Jean Charles ("Frenchy") Pinon there was-after 13 threadbare years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Six-Figure Hunch | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

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