Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Suddenly, across the noonday sky from west to east, swept a brilliant fireball. It left a long trail of white (some observers said black) smoke, and it flew so high that it was seen almost simultaneously in Greenville, Miss., Montgomery, Ala. and Atlanta. Over Sylacauga it exploded with a boom like thunder (some said a series of booms). A schoolboy in Montgomery, 50 miles away, insisted that the blast almost knocked him off his bicycle...
...Country Girl (Perlberg-Seaton; Paramount) is the screen version-and a great improvement-of Clifford Odets ambiguous 1950 play about a middle-aged Broadway has-been and the two people who drag him up the comeback trail. It's a tough trail for the audience, too, but the view is well worth the trip...
...still tangled web woven by the Fields, one thread lay clear as a trail of blood on snow. In their five years in Communist hands, the Communists had used the American name of Field in trial after trial, until it became a symbol of death...
Bicks also will propose an effort to revive the German Exchange program on a permanent basis. Started in 1951 with one student, the Exchange project was expanded in 1952, by means of a special trail run grant from the State Department, to bring over six students. In 1953, because of the lapse of the grant, no German student came here on such a program...
During World War I Elsa hit the charity trail. She topped the big time at a gala for French war orphans in New York's Metropolitan Opera House by producing the notoriously unproducible Marshal Joffre. The hero of the Marne had secretly agreed to be taken prisoner, and Elsa had him "captured" by a National Guard cavalry escort. She went on in triumph to the Peace Conference and captured Arthur Balfour, British Foreign Secretary, as her dinner guest at the Ritz. Elsa was firmly launched as the hostess who combined a touch of Mme. de Recamier with the flair...