Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pacific coast. Guthrie's new book, These Thousand Hills, again justifies the literary claim he has staked out in that vast country, but it also shows that when a novelist sets a Western hero on a horse, he is apt. sooner or later, to follow a trail that leads to horse opera...
Yale Saturday dawned murkily and Hubert struggled free of the tangled bedclothes, leaving a trail of sheets and blankets leading toward the john. Therein he groped for the drinking glass, but remembered that his roommate had dropped it the day before. He noticed blood pumping from a deep gash in his foot. He somehow got the shaving cream can backwards, and squirted his eye, dropped his pajama bottoms in surprise, lost his balance, and fell into the shower...
...Trail's End. But now it was over. Now the long years since the first defeat, the raucous primary fight with Estes Kefauver. the glittering first-ballot victory which brought him his party's nomination at Chicago (and marked, perhaps, the pinnacle of his political career), the frustrating campaign itself-all these were behind...
...wilderness of western Montana, where big game roams a rugged land of granite and jack pine, two hunters tracked a trail of blood. For five hours Viv Squires and Ken Scott moved cautiously through the brush, trailing the huge brown grizzly bear they had wounded that morning. Viv Squires, 45, was no marksman, had not hunted for ten years; he carried a .30-30 Winchester carbine-a deer rifle and hardly better than a peashooter, he kept thinking, against the 8-ft., 700-lb. grizzly. But 29-year-old Ken Scott, lean, muscular and a good shot, felt confident...
...Struggle. The trail led into a heavily thicketed clump of jack pine. There at 4 o'clock they saw the bear ahead. Squires fired; he thought he heard the thud of his slugs striking flesh. The bear came on, and Ken Scott coolly took aim. At 50 ft. he fired three times, then stopped...