Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These efforts, however, were not nearly enought to offset the poorest performances of the year by the Alpiners. According to Alpine captain Tim Hofer, the races were held on the toughest trail the team had raced on all year. "It's the type of hill where team skiing comes into play. A lot of guys aren't used to that," he said...
Boxing the Tigers off the boards in the first half, the Crimson managed to survive clumsy ball-handling and poor shooting from the field to trail by just three at the intermission...
Dubin's Lives, Malamud's seventh novel and first book in nearly six years, follows the uncompromising trail of his previous fiction and makes the journey memorable once again. William Dubin is a successful biographer in his mid-50s. Isolated by choice on nine acres of land in upstate New York, Dubin begins a new book, mindful of the vicarious nature of his craft: "One writes lives he can't live." The subject in this case is D.H. Lawrence, whose yawps about sex and blood consciousness seem designed to unhinge middle-aged intellectuals. Dubin proves no exception...
...publicity surrounding the Johnson trail has focused a lot of attention on the character and practices of the P.G. police force...
...teen-ager in rural Pennsylvania, far from the sea, Burt Webber had visions of finding long-lost treasure in sunken ships. First he took up scuba diving; later he embarked on a long trail of treasureless sea hunts, barely supporting his growing family as a peripatetic encyclopedia salesman and brickworker. But last November Webber's ship finally came in. Blessed by coincidence and new technology, the 36-year-old adventurer located the site of a 17th century Spanish galleon, the Concepción, some 80 miles north of the Dominican Republic. With his research partner, Jack Haskins...