Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years as mayor, O'Dwyer has seemed both fascinated and repelled by New York politics and his trying job. He has suffered from nervous exhaustion and heart trouble, has often yearned to pursue his particular hobby-following the trail of the old Spanish conquistadors in Central and South America.* He has also alienated backers and constituents. He opposed doubling the subway fare to 10?, before the election, and afterwards, came out for it. He announced that he would not think of running for a second term, and changed his mind at the last minute...
Getulio was striding down the comeback trail...
Winton struck back. They warmed up one of the company's two-cylinder trail blazers, hitched a wagon to the rear end, loaded a work-weary old jackass into the wagon, and attached a sign of their own: "This is the only animal unable to drive a Winton." Wherever the horse-drawn Winton went, the Winton and wagon followed. The disgruntled customer tired of it before the agency...
...made Laura: Producer-Director Otto Preminger, Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews. The new picture makes Laura, one of 1944's best films, look better than ever. Andrews plays a tough Manhattan detective with a bad record for manhandling criminals. When he inadvertently kills one, he covers up his trail with false clues, and suspicion points to Gene Tierney's father. It takes no end of foolish talk and action for Andrews to square himself with the law and the girl...
...Yankee Exodus, by Stewart H. Holbrook. How & why generations of 19th Century New Englanders took the trail West; a well-documented retracing by a Vermonter whose own family stayed home (TIME, June...