Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Smoke from a Crypt. Finally, with radio direction-finder cars, Greek army and police officers got on the trail. One beam led to an obscure chicken farm in the seacoast village of Glyfada, eight miles from Athens; another pointed to a carpenter's modest house in an Athens suburb. One night last November, the government raided both...
...expert at Johns Hopkins University, he has spent the better part of the past three years looking for a cure for the common cold. In Chicago last week, at a conference of the Common Cold Foundation, he was obliged to report that he is still on the old, cold trail. "Personally," he said, "my favorite treatment is old Maryland rock...
Sing to the Longhorns. But except for end-of-the-trail benders, cowboy life on the drives was incredibly hard. Indians, choking dust, unbearable heat and bad food were normal features of the job. Night stampedes, sometimes started by Indians, often left cowboys and ponies smashed to pulp on the prairies by thousands of hooves. When cowhands sang sad songs through the night watch, it was not only because they were lonely: experience had taught them that teary ballads seemed to keep their shorthorns and longhorns from milling...
Detailed Description. In Lexington, Ky., after a swindled merchant set cops on the trail of a forger wearing a ragged coat fastened with an eightpenny nail, Suspect Brice Young protested: "It couldn't be me. My coat is fastened with tenpenny nail...
Ragged early play notwithstanding, the varsity hockey team managed to stay on the victory trail at West Point Saturday, trouncing Army handily...