Word: trails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...idea of having their own home state became firmly fixed in the Sikh mind at the time of the partition of old British India, when some Sikh country was shaved off to make part of what is now West Pakistan. Forced to move out, the Sikhs left a trail of massacre behind them, and were furious when Nehru ordered their swords to be sewn into their leather scabbards. Said old Tara Singh: "When the Moslems can get Pakistan, and the Hindus India, why not a Sikhs' Sikhistan?" But Nehru's Congress Party won over many of Tara Singh...
...gallops back to the family ranch, jilts his girl, demands his inheritance from his patriarchal father (Walter Hampden), and hits the trail for Damascus, lusting after alien goddesses...
...varsity rugby team, unbeaten in cup and league play this season, should get back onto the winning trail and clinch the Eastern League title tomorrow, when they meet a weak Princeton...
...Robertson and Radford flew toward the Orient, speculation about their mission ran off on a wrong trail. Press wires around the world clacked out the rumor that Radford and Robertson, two old friends of Chiang Kaishek, had been assigned to give him the bad news that the U.S. would not help him defend the Matsus and Quemoy, and to urge that he get his troops off those islands. They had no such orders and no such intentions. But since Formosa did not know why they were coming, or even how long they planned to stay, the worldwide speculation bred bafflement...
...Camino Real (Royal Road) to the tall treasure galleons that sailed for Spain. Last week a 28-year-old U.S. Army lieutenant, who has already retraced Balboa's path, was completing his rediscovery of Panama's historic routes with a rugged crossing of the old treasure trail...