Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over the Hills. Last year, with the Nationalists finally driven to the hills, the Russians widened the caravan trails through Sinkiang and brought their tanks and heavy artillery to bear on the Kazaks. In four battles, the rebellious tribesmen lost 3,000 killed. Osman was captured and killed. His 5,000-odd survivors split into groups and headed south. Last week, after months of agony, picking their way through uncharted passes across the highest mountains in the world, one party of 120 Kazak men, women & children reached the end of the trail-Mohammedan Kashmir and its "City...
...gone off some time within the last month, were surprised that it hadn't come sooner. By now, they estimated, Russia may have stockpiled between 20 and 100 bombs. Stalin's reference to "different calibers" was taken as a hint that Russia, too, was on the trail of tactical atomic weapons...
This use of forceful tactics comes as a hangover from the days fifteen years ago when Jerry Owen was number one sparring partner for boxer Max Baer. Baer moved on to Hollywood as a slapstick comedian; Owen left him and started up the sawdust trail as an evangelist. As Owen explains it, Jesus came down one night to call him to the pulpit. Jesus said "Come on Jerry, I'se got sumpin' for you--I'm gone make you a fisher of men." Then Jesus dropped into the background to brush up on his grammar, and Jerry Owen baited...
Former heavyweight champion Ezzard Charles made the first big jump up the comeback trail last night with a technical knockout over 23-year-old Rex Layne of Salt Lake City in 2:32 of the 11th round...
...copy of the Gospel of John. Alone, he does some thinking. Next Sunday, Sister Kay tunes in the Billy Graham hour on the hospital radio. Jim Tyler listens, and comes to a decision. "All my life," he drawls in the climactic scene, "I bin ridin' the wrong trail. I'm turnin' back. I'm goin' God's way-I think it's goin' to be a wonderful ride...