Word: west
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...debunking of Western badmen in your March 30 issue included too many errors to be ignored. If Wild Bill Hickok was a member of Buffalo Bill's Wild West troupe in the year 1890, he was there in spirit only. Wild Bill was killed on the afternoon of Aug. 2, 1876 in the Number Ten Saloon in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, by Nonentity Jack McCall. The carets Bill was holding fell to the floor face up-aces and eights, known ever after as the "dead man's hand...
...radio speech announcing his decision, Adenauer took a few angry slaps at Britain and provoked a cross-Channel exchange of insults, thus bringing into the open the stress and strains of the postwar marriage of convenience between Britain and West Germany. But Britain, and particularly its press, was somewhat at odds with all its partners on the eve of East-West negotiations. See FOREIGN NEWS. The Strange British Mood...
...Crimson track team will open its spring campaign against Army's vaunted Cadets today at West Point. Army is deep and strong in almost every event, and the thin varsity squad will need an all-out effort and plenty of luck...
...West Point weather at this time of year is legendarily bad, and it will take a great deal of spirit to overcome the elements and defeat the team that the New York writers are calling the best in the East...
BERLIN, April 15--Communist East Germany dimmed hopes today for East-West agreement at next month's foreign ministers conference...