Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they were not smart enough to whip the eternal dilemma of the man-hunted. All they gained was liquor and women : as they moved from apartment to apartment they left a trail of bobby pins and empty bottles. Otherwise life was just like prison - except that it was riskier...
Explained Leon Henderson, with the enthusiasm of a man on the trail of a big idea: "The new program is designed to give the consumer effective protection from rising living costs and at the same time vastly simplify the regulations to which the food retailer is now subject." Echoed U.S. housewives and grocers: praise...
Erwin Rommel's retreat from El Aghéila had begun with an orderliness that was almost sedate. There was the suspicion that he had already withdrawn the bulk of his army, leaving only enough troops for a bluff. He sprinkled his trail with land mines and booby traps* and loped off along the coast...
...jointly by the Brazilian Government, U.S. Rubber Reserve Co. and Nelson Rockefeller's Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. To speed the rubber output, broad-shouldered, lion-faced Joâo Alberto Lins de Barros was recruiting 78,000 workers to go up the Amazon trail to the rubber grounds. Joâo Alberto knew that country: back in the '20s he had marched a column of revolutionists against Dictator Arthur da Silva Bernardes through nearly 950 miles of jungle and mountain to the Bolivian border, covering over 30 miles a day. Now he was thinking...
Tree in the Trail - Holling Clancy Holling...