Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bury All. Curley's private life was scarred by tragedy. His first wife, Mary, died of cancer. Of his nine children, seven died, two of them on the same day from the same cause: cerebral hemorrhage. Today James Michael Curley is beyond the end of his political trail, the last of the city bosses who went down before a combination of social services, prosperity, a more hardheaded electorate. He was soundly beaten in his last three mayoralty bids (the most recent in 1955), and last December narrowly survived an operation for a stomach ulcer. His final ambition: attaining...
...month interval, a lot had happened to Jack Soble, 53, and his Russian-born wife, 53 (TIME, Feb. 4). They found out that while they were spying, the FBI had been on their trail. And when they faced the prospect that the Justice Department's case against them might well be unbeatable, they had to face up to the grim fact that in 1954 Congress raised the maximum penalty for peace time espionage from 20 years' imprisonment to death...
...shots and holding out until their ammo was exhausted. The fight was useless. One morning last week the gendarmes found the bullet-ridden bodies of Wilson, Carroll and their two Iranian companions lying on the scene of the skirmish. Of Anita Carroll the only sign left was a trail of torn paper leading to the bandits' mountain fastnesses...
Marvin got on the trail several years ago when he stumbled across a volume of 14 Soler sonatas in a secondhand bookshop in California, immediately recognized them as "something different." He played the sonatas in recital, but suspected that they were heavily edited and set out (with the aid of a foundation grant) to track down the 50-odd additional Soler sonatas listed in musical dictionaries...
TEHRAN, Iran, April 7--Patrols hunting the dwindling gang of bandit chief Dadshah for the massacre of three Americans have found his pregnant third wife dead on the trail, apparently sacrificed to speed the flight...