Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since the boys cannot go on camping trips, they earn their merit badges by telling the leaders how to follow a trail, how to build a fire, how to treat blisters, burns and snakebites. Most of them have learned to identify trees and to tell directions in the woods. Although many of the physically handicapped are confined to wheelchairs with cerebral palsy, polio, arthritis or paraplegia, they have proved remarkably adept at mastering certain basic normal skills, e.g., tying knots, which some of the boys can do only by using their teeth. The mentally retarded boys have learned the simpler...
...Clairfield, Tenn., after he disappeared from the Army in 1942, Farmer Hubert Osborne dug a tunnel from his house to the barn to use as an escape route if the MPs ever showed up, panicked when they finally arrived, ran across the lawn dropping a telltale trail of bran from a sack he was carrying, was arrested, charged with desertion...
...TRAIL OF THE DINOSAUR (253 pp.) -Arthur Koestler-Macm/7/on...
...cattle more than 600 long miles, through drought, ambush and ennui, from parched Texas to verdant Wyoming. Subsequent Frontier programs will tell of Poker Alice (Joan Vohs), the coolest gambler on the plains, and the Long Road to Tucson will relate the saga of seven nuns on the trail from San Diego to the Arizona territory. So far, Wyatt Earp (starring Hugh O'Brian) has permitted only the occasional intrusion of women, but Brave Eagle (with Keith Larsen and Kim Winona) and Gunsmoke each have a hot-eyed heroine ready and willing to buckle on the guns...
...industrializing of the country, he said, depends on growing farm surpluses, which can only be produced by larger and more efficient cooperatives. If the future of Chinese Communism is to be saved, said Mao, "we must mount our horses quickly" and charge off to the left along the trail so boldly blazed by the Russians. The Central Committee had decided that no more than a million collectives should be formed by next fall. "That is not enough," snapped Mao. "The existing number of 650,000 should be doubled...