Word: trails
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...margin of victory came on a two-point conversion with 4:11 left in the game, after Brown had scored a touch-down to trail, 30-29. On the decisive play, quarterback Mark Whipple faked a dive play up the middle, rolled to his right, and flipped to Rick Villella just inside the endzone flag...
...First, let me assure you that I am not a contestant." There is strained laughter. Brooke, a man famous for his sexual magnetism among other things, looks old--the last few months, the day-to-day campaign trail routine, haven't helped his appearance. The makeup he wears when campaigning smears the knot of his paisley tie and the collar of his striped shirt...
Nevertheless, Geraldine Ferraro eagerly trots down the campaign trail, suffering the trials common to all candidates as well as those peculiar to women. A staff member makes a scheduling mistake, and she ends up at a marina when she is supposed to be at another boat basin; the March of Dimes bike-a-thon starts without her. As she walks down a Queens street handing out literature, one woman whispers to her husband: "She's very pretty, isn't she?" A man urges her to "get the electric chair going as soon as possible." At a housing project, a middle...
Most Congressmen and Senators were back in their home districts last week, seeking new zest along the campaign trail after one of the most hectic congressional closings in modern times. Now it was up to President Carter and his aides to try to make sense out of the incredible pile of 189 bills-including a tax cut and an energy program-that the lawmakers had sent to the White House. Among the other significant legislative deaths and births during the last hours of the session...
Kyle's antihero is 35-year-old Hauptsturmführer Franz Rasch, a much decorated Waffen SS commando. Assigned to deliver the lists in Stockholm, he is betrayed by his bosses. His trail leads to neutral Ireland and England and finally back to Germany. There the disillusioned Rasch attempts to capture vital files from Schloss Wewelsburg, the Black Camelot that Himmler assembled as a Teutonic perversion of King Arthur's court. In one of the best siege narratives since The Guns of Navarone, Rasch and other embittered SS men infiltrate the monstrous castle at the same time that...