Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hounds gathered for the 60th National Fox Hunters' Association Field Trials. The 100,000-acre military reservation was tinder-dry with just 3 in. of rain since June; though both red and grey fox abounded, the U.S.'s top hounds had a terrible time following the trail...
Some of the hounds "babbled," i.e., bayed before the scent was picked up, and were promptly disqualified. Others were tossed out for "running cunning," i.e., working the wrong trail. Despite the dust that clogged hounds' noses and dissipated scents, the Futurity event (for pups whelped in 1952) was a success: two greys killed, a red cornered. The winner: Coburn Hill King, owned by Mrs. Clyde Smith of Peculiar...
...grand-prize, all-age stakes, the hard-riding judges had trouble keeping up with the hill & dale scampering of the hard-hunting hounds. Owners gave chase, hopefully waiting for the moment when their hounds might "give tongue," i.e., lead or join the symphony of bays that signals a hot trail. The 15 judges were soberly concerned with keeping up with the leaders, marking the hounds on hunting, trailing, speed and drive, endurance. The panting hounds and horses (and judges) sometimes covered 35 miles a day in a five-hour chase...
...wilds of northern Burma last. week, 148 Chinese officers and men, and two young wives, marched down a trail to a prearranged meeting point in a cleared space hacked out of the jungle...
...error has a high rasping content, while 'Senior Circuit' for American-or is it National?-League has a suggestion of pomposity, like an overstuffed clubman in an overstuffed chair." Other Trib selections: "hits the hoop" (for shooting baskets), "squared circle" (boxing ring), "spouted claret" (bleeding), "comeback trail...