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Word: trails (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week their 60-mile advance had reached the end of the flatlands, cutting a bloody trail through provincial troops guarding the key passes of Yuyangkwan and Changyang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF CHINA: Into the Clear Sky? | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

Australians call the bush-haired natives "Abos" or "Boongs"; the complex, almost telepathic process by which they trail missing men is "blacktracking." Soon after U.S. troops arrived, two soldiers took a furlough to go hunting, and got bushed. A tracker turned them up in jig time after 400 white soldiers had scoured the area in vain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Blacktrackers' Magic | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

...area of the crash is some distance away, Charlie No. 2 may go part way by plane or truck. Then he goes ahead on foot, seeming to wander aimlessly, pausing now and again to examine a clump of bushes, some disarranged grass or stones. When the trail becomes fresher he lopes forward, confident and tireless. Sometimes he warns that they had better hurry, saying "Bimeby he finish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Blacktrackers' Magic | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

...Moss and Stones. Expert trackers can follow a trail from horseback even across flat granite rocks and the pebbly "Gibber Country" of the interior. There is virtually no vegetation, but the trackers watch for displaced pebbles or almost invisible marks in the vestiges of moss burnt to dust by the pitiless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Blacktrackers' Magic | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

...Overture: Poet and Peasantvon Suppe Suite from "Rodeo" Copland Warsaw Concerto Addinsell (Piano: Leo Litwin) Brazil Barroso Saturday Evening, May 29 Overture: "Russian and Ludmilla" Glinka Concerto in F Gershwin (Piano: Jesus Maria Sanroma) Suite from Ballet: "Sylvia" Delibes Prelude to "The Deluge" Saint-Saons "On the Trail," from Grand Canyon Suite Grofe Sunday Evening, May 30 No concert

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Week in Music | 5/28/1943 | See Source »

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