Word: trails
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years old, fresh-faced and heartbreakingly handsome in his fringed buckskins, says goodbye to the girl he shyly loves. He speaks awkwardly, in tones still untutored by the professionalism that was to come, of the wild land that he must abandon her for, to explore along The Big Trail...
Patriarch and moralist. Amid the wreckage of the trail camp, the herder who started the stampede is dragged before the man whose cowhands and fortune he has placed at risk. "Shoot me," the herder blubbers. A look of disgust flickers across Thomas Dunson's face. "Not gonna shoot you," he says, "gonna hang you." He is merciless toward those who violate the trust of the masculine group that confronts danger on the cattle drive from the Red River to Kansas...
...when it happens, many will interpret the creation of a Department of Education as a victory for President Carter. "Education is something that has been relegated to a secondary position in the past," Carter said in 1976 while hot on the campaign trail. Since the campaign, Carter has pushed hard for a separate Department of Education within his overall plan to reorganize the federal government. In November 1977, his special study team presented him with three options for redefining the position of education in the federal machinery: (1) the creation of a separate Department of Education; (2) the creation...
Throughout the trial White sat frozen, staring blankly ahead. Occasionally he shed tears, but he made no attempt to wipe them away. It was a different picture from the outgoing politician who had firmly told reporters on the campaign trail that "crime is No. 1 with me"-and who staunchly supported the death penalty for crimes like...
George Bush joined the Republican scorecard in the race for the Presidency yesterday, as more than 300 supporters jammed the Sheraton-Boston Hotel to cheer on the sixth GOP candidate on the campaign trail...