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...hills, swirled madly about the besieged white men, and then fled wildly, howling like frightened, furious children, when the cavalry arrived for a nick-of-time rescue? Those were the days when Indians were really serviceable. No worry about characterization, no need for realistic detail or historical recreation. Just trot them out on stage and as quickly do them in. Those were the days when Indians died by simply biting the dust. No questions asked. No catharsis...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: FilmsCowboys and Vietnamese | 1/29/1971 | See Source »

Foster tried to work out last week prior to the Brown contest, but as he confessed, "I couldn't even trot; I couldn't do anything." He went out to practice yesterday with orders from doctors to refrain from sprints, fast starts or sudden jerks of any kind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Injury Hampering Foster; Crone Gets ECAC Award | 11/18/1970 | See Source »

...question remains, is it time for Hacker−or anyone−to write the country off? It may be too late to trot out again the "We are a young country" routine. But there is also a premature hysteria to the new-style despair, as if American opinion were going from polarized optimism to polarized pessimism−from the foolish complacence of thinking we were the best to the equally foolish self-contempt of accepting that we are the worst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: America: Going, Going, Gone? | 6/1/1970 | See Source »

...conspicuous success in the "Fancuilla" is the attempt to make it American-i. e. simple-minded. This is achieved by having the gold miners sing in unison, and by repeating a Grofe-type trot-rhythm to the point of incandescence...

Author: By M. CHRIS Rochester, | Title: Igor Stravinsky Retrospectives and Conclusions | 5/20/1970 | See Source »

...October 4, seven girls from Barnard and their pom poms will trot out on to Baker Field to encourage the Lions in their Ivy opener against Princeton. They will be accompanied by ten Columbia men and, as usual, by the student dressed in the Lion oufit...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Columbia to Feature Female Cheerleaders But Football Team Still Expected to Lose | 9/23/1969 | See Source »

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