Word: trailingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wearing a jaunty red-white-and-blue stocking cap, the big man schussed down the mountain trail and snow-plowed expertly to a stop. His cheeks were ruddy, his eyelashes and thick eyebrows frosted white by the -12° cold, and his grin could not have been broader. The skiing, exclaimed Gerald Ford, was "super...
...wonder if the team Harvard was outscoring, 6-3, really came from Brown University. Last year, former Bruin coach Allan Soares dressed Attila and his horde in Brown hockey uniforms and sent them out on to the ice at Watson to ravage Harvard, and leave a trail of 32 minutes of Bruin penalties, a game misconduct, a bloodied Kevin Burke and a 6-1 Harvard victory...
...fight more Communist soldiers than it has ever faced in the long history of the Viet Nam War. Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces now number about 285,000, up 65,000 in the past two years. All-weather roads have replaced the slow Ho Chi Minh Trail as a supply route, down which ammunition and replacements flow from the North. Since U.S. bombing in Indochina ended last year, the crack North Vietnamese army (NVA) 5th Division has been able to return to its traditional base area in the Parrot's Beak inside Cambodia. There it poses a constant...
Wichita has known more than its historic share of booms. Back in the 1870s the town was a major overnight hitching post for cowhands who were taking their Texas longhorns north over the dusty Chisholm Trail. Signs posted outside the self-proclaimed "cow capital" declared: "Anything goes in Wichita. Leave your revolvers at police headquarters." Thirsty cowpunchers, ranchers, Indian scouts and gamblers filled the barrooms and dance halls, earning Wichita a reputation as "the noisiest town on the American continent...
...Reeves: "It is not a question of saying the emperor has no clothes. There is a question of whether there is an emperor." At one stop, Reeves contends, Ford apparently equated the legitimacy of Jordan with that of the Palestine Liberation Organization, but no journalist squawked. Along the campaign trail, says Reeves, many journalists referred to Ford in private as "dummy" or "Bozo," but treated him with due deference in print...