Word: valley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with loving attention, bet heavily on the pigeons' speed and natural navigation skills, bridle at the very thought of selling their pets for food. Last month, when a rash crook kidnaped half a dozen prizewinners and sent one of his own homers with a ransom note, the whole valley rose in wrath. Pigeon partisans tagged the go-between pigeon with streamers, trailed it by plane back to its loft, and turned the rustler over to the courts...
...Killed, 194 (139 Republicans, 55 Dem ocrats) to 179 (126 Republicans. 53 Dem ocrats), the Administration-sponsored, Senate-approved $156 million Frying Pan-Arkansas project designed to bring Frying Pan Creek water to drought-stricken southeastern Colorado (in the Arkansas River valley) by tunnel through the Con tinental Divide...
...highest storm clouds are usually the most violent and the most likely to produce cloudbursts and tornadoes. Through their ability to see raindrops before they fall, they will enable weathermen to predict flash floods; when clouds are observed dropping heavy rain on a mountain watershed, the people in the valley below can be warned to take to the hills...
...idea that is not uncommon among U.S. horse trainers. Nashua, the millionaire thoroughbred, along with many a competitor, shuns tap water, drinks only Mountain Valley Water, a bottled mineral elixir from Hot Springs, Ark. Some trainers think the spring water tastes better to horses, is good for equine kidneys. Horses are occasionally shipped to Hot Springs itself, where they can run at Oaklawn Park while taking heavy dosages on home ground...
...West, Young Men. In La Canada, Calif., the Valley Sun carried the following classified ad: "EXCELLENT VALUE. Husband has already left for the East making this contemporary ranch an excellent opportunity...