Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, as the season reached its peak in the Rocky Mountain area west of Denver and some 135,000 legal, licensed hunters were hot on the trail, the two poachers were serving out their time. Most Coloradans thought they had got just what they deserved. But even the legal hunters were cutting some unlovely capers as they went after deer, elk or bear...
...spit. Over hissing coals of satire and irony, the British author-artist has broiled intellectual quacks (The Apes of God), ailing civilizations (Time and Western Man), and his own middle-class countrymen (Rotting Hill). Like Bernard Shaw, he outraged Britons in the '303 by following the trail of a sawdust Caesar, Adolf Hitler. But in 1937, when Shaw was busy touting Superman Stalin, Lewis became one of the first writers to bare the tyrannic fraud of Communism in a novel called The Revenge for Love. By ripping the adhesive tape of romance and pretension from the Spanish civil...
After a two-day rest in Springfield, Stevenson this week went out on Eisenhower's trail through Wyoming, Utah and Texas. Stevenson aides have decided that the Democratic candidate is up against the "Eisenhower father symbol," i.e., a lot of people see Ike as a strong character, who will shoulder the country's worries. Stevenson's job, his staff thinks, is to try to "destroy the symbol...
...John Roosevelt, youngest (36) son of F.D.R., hit the campaign trail for Eisenhower. His brother Elliott is also for Ike, but Brothers James and Franklin Jr. and their mother are for Stevenson. Said John: "I believe it's time for a cleanup, for new faces and new brains." ¶After a speech by Boss John L. Lewis (who has not publicly supported a presidential candidate since he broke with Franklin Roosevelt in 1940 and supported Willkie), the United Mine Workers' convention in Cincinnati whooped through a resolution endorsing Adlai Stevenson. The Mine Workers' $1.90-a-day wage...
...children are more interested in keeping up his scrapbook than in playing chess, Reshevsky analyzes the significant games played in major tournaments, dating back to the London championship of 1851. He must have at his mental fingertips all of the important positions that have cropped up in hundreds of trail-blazing games of the past and present. An idea of the combinations he must keep in his head can be gained from the fact that the first ten moves on each side in chess can be played in 169,518,829,100,544,000,000,000,000,000 different ways...