Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...naturally as if it were digging along an old, familiar path instead of pioneering a new trail, the U.S., with astute help from Great Britain, channeled Nikita Khrushchev's demand for a summit conference into the United Nations. In doing so, the U.S. was not merely using the U.N. as a handy device for countering Khrushchev without stomping on its allies' desires for a big-power meeting. In insisting on keeping the Lebanon crisis within the U.N., the U.S. had a positive purpose: getting the U.N. to take responsibility for protecting Lebanon-and any other country similarly menaced...
...Washington stripped Lebanon of its exclusive little glory. No malice intended, said the geodesists, but with the addition of 586,400 square Alaska miles, the balance would have to move 439 miles northwest -give or take ten miles-to the vicinity of Two Top Peak, a butte eleven wagon-trail miles west of Castle Rock...
This blazed a clear trail for Mike Stepovich. Last week he announced his candidacy for Term B. There he will oppose grey former Territorial Governor Ernest Gruening, a Democrat Mike Stepovich may be able to beat...
...Admitted that since May 7-about the time that committee investigators hit his trail-he had redeposited $395,572 worth of the checks in his company bank accounts, declared that another $209,671 worth had "never been used," that neither he nor Mildred Paperman could explain what had happened to an additional $89,000 worth of checks drawn in the 1940s. The bank, said Miss Paperman blandly, has "made mistakes in the past, and these can be an error...
...plain ole red-and-white Lincoln when a fan pulled alongside to see if the civvie-clad driver was really the great man at large. Interpreting the glance as a drag challenge, Elvis kicked down on the throttle with the fan in hot pursuit. Also on the trail was an interested state patrolman, who flagged Elvis and fan at 75 m.p.h. (in a 55-m.p.h. zone), gave them both tickets. Groaned the Pelvis to the Cop: "Well, I guess you caught me." No man to avoid the wages of small sin, Dreamboat Presley had a friend show up in court...