Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lived mostly on fruit. "I thought a trail of orange peels would lead the British to me," he said with a smile. "Usually it was too dangerous to hunt. But once I was awakened by a goat prancing near me and could not resist. I have never tasted anything so good." Grivas kept constantly on the move-and eventually moved from the barren mountains into the towns. He spent the better part of the last two years shifting from house to house in Limassol (pop. 36,500), right under the noses of the British. A trusted deacon in the Limassol...
Good or bad, adult or infantile, psychological or just physical, the TV western is the No. 1 talking horse of the average trail-feverish American. A man in Pennsylvania, angered when his wife turned off Have Gun, Will Travel while he was watching it, ran for his revolver and took a shot at her. (He missed.) In Florida one priest bet another that Marshal Matt Dillon was faster on the draw than Paladin-loser to say early Mass on Sunday. Tie-in sales of toys suggested by TV westerns are expected to hit $125 million this year. And at last...
Ward Bond (6 ft. 1 in., 225 lbs., 48-41-44), a 55-year-old veteran of more than 150 Hollywood films, is the trail boss of Wagon Train, one of the biggest (60 min.) and costliest ($90,000-$120,000) of TV's saddle-soap operas. Bond shares the billing with a new guest star every week, and with a capable young actor named Robert Horton, who plays a tough scout. On the show, Actor Bond is fatherly one minute, the next he is roaring like a mule with the colic. An extravert's extravert...
This year the Gondola is running without a hitch, but the snow conditions have not been as consistently good as those in Vermont. However, the Wildcat trail has been widened and straightened, and it provides a challenging run for most skiers...
...editors with better memories remembered the baby sitter's tale for what it was: a gnarled hoax that has been knocking around city rooms for 25 years* When the more knowing editors began to protest to A.P., Twin Cities reporters, backtracking truth to its lair, found that the trail ended with a 35-year-old suburban Minneapolis insurance agent named Fred R. Keller, who said only that he had heard the story from someone else...