Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cities, drawing industry and providing water for empty land. Today, in an empire lacking private local capital to meet the increasing dreams of manifest destiny, federal help still looms large, and U.S.-financed works find vigorous support even from otherwise conservative Republicans. Item: for 35 years, following the same trail over which the Lewis and Clark Expedition first entered the country in 1805, Idaho has tried to complete a new, direct highway across the precipitous Bitterroot Mountains to link Portland and the East. Without increased federal help, most citizens of the state now agree, it may never be accomplished...
...pitfalls are likely to turn America's new crop of amateurs into the same sort of semipros who have been disappointing tennis fans for years. Writes one-time Davis Cup Player Sidney Wood Jr.: "A player known to have no other source of income, can . . . travel the tournament trail in relative luxury throughout South America, Europe, Egypt, India and most of the U.S. ... He is often able to set aside some rainy-day savings gleaned from an expense account well in excess of the legally prescribed $15 daily...
...chubbers, first organized as the DOC in 1909, have split into various sub-groups. The three major subsidiaries are Winter Sports, which sponsors the College ski team, Cabin and trail, which maintains a chain of mountain hostels, and a Carnival division. In addition, there are the Ledyard Canoe club, the Ski Patrol, the Mountaineering club, and Bait and Bullet...
Tornadoes are notoriously unpredictable. It is impossible to tell, just by looking, whether a tall black cloud will merely drop a shower, or whether it will lash out with a twister. Last week the U.S. Weather Bureau was on the trail of a promising way of telling in advance which of the tall black clouds are apt to be pregnant with tornadoes...
...December, 1952. Since then, he has been on suspension, with pay, from Johns Hopkins University. In several respects, his case is similar to that of MIT's Dirk Struik, who was indicted in 1951 for conspiring to overthrow the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Struik has never been brought to trail, yet for three years, he too has been drawing a full salary without being allowed to teach...