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Word: trailing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cinqué's great adventure began when three husky bucks leaped at him from the brush beside the trail and carried him off to be sold to a Spanish slaver. From the Spanish barracoons he was shipped to Cuba, and there sold with 48 other Negroes, many from his own tribe, to a Señor Ruiz. Ruiz loaded his human goods aboard a schooner named Amistad (Friendship), Captain Ferrer commanding; later a Señor Montes took passage. On June 27, 1839, the schooner weighed anchor and headed eastward along the coast of Cuba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: He Could Not Be a Slave | 5/4/1953 | See Source »

...your scouring stick! Shorten your scouring stick! Put in your bullet and ram home! Present! Give fire! Dismount your musket! Uncock your match! Return your match! Clear your pan! Prime your pan! Shut your pan! Cast off your loose powder! Blow off your loose powder! Cast about your musket! Trail your rest! Open your charge! Withdraw your scouring stick! Shorten your scouring stick! Return your scouring stick! Recover your musket!" of graft or waste or human error. But in sum, they add up to inefficiency and delay. After listening to the week's testimony, Senator Byrd summed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The Pentagon Jungle | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

...Walter Duranty . . . waxed rhapsodic over the Soviet 'experiment' throughout the 1920s and much of the 1930s ... The 'Times man' in Moscow from 1941 to 1943, Ralph Parker, turned up shortly afterward as correspondent for both the London and New York [Communist] Daily Workers, leaving a trail of glowing red faces behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Reporter on Red Square | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

...happy as the grass was green, The night above the dingle starry, Time let me hail and climb Golden in the heydays of his eyes, And honoured among wagons I was prince of the apple towns And once below a time I lordly had the trees and leaves Trail with daisies and barley Down the rivers of the windfall light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A DYLAN THOMAS SAMPLER | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

Just then, Colonel Baker's headset crackled with a warning: two more MIGs were poised high above him. He veered off to the left. "When I saw they weren't coming I went back after my original boy," said Baker afterwards. "I picked him up in a trail of smoke. But he was out beyond the range of my guns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN KOREA: Ace of Aces | 3/23/1953 | See Source »

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