Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...golden-haired baby that he had found lying all alone in the woods. "It's our baby now," he told Davy thoughtfully. "We'll keep it for a year or two, until it's got a mind of its own. Then it'll hit the trail and there'll be no stopping...
...seconds, and it would have required 40 seconds to strike the 27 blows that had been inflicted on Marilyn's skull. Moreover. Cleveland detectives figured that Marilyn died between 3:10 and 4 a.m. Sheppard phoned to Houk some two hours later. In the meantime, tests disclosed, a trail of blood leading from the bedroom to a basement sink had been wiped away...
...first vacation as Secretary, after the hard-driving Alaskan swing, McKay went on a hard-riding packhorse trip in California's Yosemite National Park (part of Interior's domain). For five days McKay, wearing a comfortable cowboy outfit, roughed it frontier-style-riding the steep Sierra trail, cooking in the open, camping out at night. This week, at his summer house on the Oregon coast, he relaxed with his family (13 in all, with Mabel McKay cooking...
...Anywhere else it would have been a nauseating concoction, both in sight and smell. But here in the rarefied cold of the Himalayas it was like a rich, hot soup. After two full bowls, my numbness and exhaustion were gone, and I was off down the steep trail like a mountain goat...
...reaches them, it has expanded so much that its temperature has fallen to that of the stratosphere, about -68° F. But when it hits a model, friction heats the gas to 7,000° F., making it brightly luminous. The gas streams around the model like the glowing trail of a meteor. The flow lasts so short a time (1/1000th of a second) that the model is not damaged, but this brief period is long enough to permit the scientists to study its effects...