Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...struggle to turn back Communist aggression, to outsmart and outfight Communist parties threatening France and Italy, there suddenly seems to be injected a moment of farce, of hysteria edging on madness, when the news tickers of the world click out the report that Senator McCarthy is hot on the trail of a suspect typist trapped in the Pentagon labyrinth...
Finely Bred. In Phenix City, Ala., when three bloodhounds were put on the trail of a fugitive: 1) all refused to enter the woods until a reporter stomped out a trail for them, 2) one dog got lost, 3) a second followed the scent of one of the cops, 4) a third got sick riding in a truck, 5) all three got hay fever from sniffing the dusty ground...
Nixon's mission, therefore, was to arouse the party professionals. Using Maine as his horrible example, Nixon pounded home the dangers of disunity and apathy. Trying out a line he was to use in other states along his campaign trail, Nixon advised the Ohio professionals to plug hard on Republican successes in dealing with "that four-headed monster that was Korea, Communism, corruption and controls...
...windfall profits as a result of watered-up mortgage loans, insured by the Federal Housing Administration under the Housing Act's Section 608. McKenna put the blame for the skulduggery directly on ex-FHA Assistant Commissioner Clyde L. Powell, whose gaudy gambling career put the FBI on his trail last year and started the whole investigation (TIME, July...
...novel, and in his person, it seems, the author sees all the fierce young social spirits who came roaring out of the '20s got soft and successful in the '30s, dangled guiltily between big money and little treason, and have recently been hitting the sawdust trail in congressional committees...