Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...showed such persistent friendliness that compassionate Hunter Hibben, who found himself alone in a canyon with his intended victim, hesitated to kill it. "We stood an eternity there, the bear and I ... The main atmosphere seemed to be one of embarrassment." Hearing the dog pack yelping at its trail, the bear calmly wrestled its way up a tree. "Should I shoot the bear? . . . Certainly this was no sporting thing. I would let Giles finish [him] off." Then suddenly the bear changed its mind and started coming down again...
...through the summer, fiction sales have been in a slump. Most of the books at the top of the bestseller lists (The Cardinal, The Wall, Star Money, Jubilee Trail) have perched there for months, not because they are great novels but because the competition has not been good enough to dislodge them. The term bestseller itself became almost a misnomer. "Bestseller sales," complains the Retail Bookseller, "are down to depression levels." What is needed, says Bookseller, is "vitamin pills...
Fortnight ago, Topper Reynolds and Stephen Wasserman packed their climbing gear and headed up 14,496-ft. Mt. Whitney, highest peak in the U.S. About 10,000 feet up, they abandoned the easy trail to the top and decided to scale Whitney's sheer, slippery 1,400-ft. east face, a cliff which had been scaled only once. They did not return...
Scribner's Characters. The ridge became quiet. Medical corpsmen, leading stretcher-bearing teams of brave and unflinching South Koreans, began to cross the valley to pick up the wounded. They carried the wounded through the valley at the foot of the ridge and up a narrow trail to an aid station just beyond the bean fields where General Craig sat sweeping the height with his field glasses. I sat there beside him, wondering if the stream of litter bearers would ever stop coming up out of that damned valley...
...chattering from the valley flanks and did what he could to help the medics. The padre spoke kind words to the stretcher bearers; when the men on the stretchers could hear him, he spoke to them too. All the while, he walked back & forth from the top of the trail to the aid station near Craig's command post. The padre was a brave man, but so was everyone who went into the valley before No Name Ridge that...