Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...might incriminate him, Beck declared, to say whether he borrowed $200,000 through two business firms to replenish the union treasury after federal income tax agents set out on his trail...
...fallen to only half the Korean war peak, the fall-off has stopped and today the 24 monthly and quarterly romance-mongers (top price: 25?) enjoy a steady circulation of more than 10 million. In the 38 years since the late Muscleman Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden blazed the trail with True Story, the confession industry has thrived by sticking to the same trite-and-true formula: first-person stories of subjective sex that are more often fiction than fact, and read like supercharged soap operas...
...before he began the Vasaloppet (Vasa Run), Sweden's gut-racking cross-country skiing championship, Farmer Gunnar Larsson had good reason to feel discouraged. He had tried the 50-mile grind in eight previous races and never finished better than fourth. Now he was 35, and the long trail that led from Sälen, near the Norwegian border, to the small town of Mora, deep in the picturesque province of Dalecarlia, looked tougher than ever. Weather on the course veered from dim to foul. At the starting line, mist lay heavy over the hilltops, and skis...
...South America, the ant, brought in nobody knows how, established a beachhead near Mobile at least 30 years ago. Suddenly, three years ago, it began to multiply so rapidly that it now ranks as a major menace. Traveling partly in autos and trucks, the ants have spread their fiery trail through the South from Texas to North Carolina. Senators from Louisiana and Congressmen from Mississippi and Alabama have introduced bills in Congress asking for aid, and next week the House Agriculture Committee will open hearings aimed at finding ways to check the fiery invader...
Died. Helen Amelia Thompson ("Ma") Sunday. 88, widow of Bible-banging Evangelist Billy Sunday who besought the unsaved with him for 39 years, presided over the sawdust trail alone ("God is my business manager") after he died in 1935; of lung cancer; in Phoenix, Ariz. Ma Sunday's stern pronouncement: "The country is in a mess, and God knows about...