Word: trace
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...take their name from one of Haile Selassie's family names, trace back to the U.S. back-to-Africa movement led by Jamaica-born Marcus Garvey in the 1920s...
Every man aboard reflects Mitchell's devotion to detail that leads him to read ancient books about ocean currents, worry about the brand of cookies stored in the galley, and take water-temperature readings to trace the warm Gulf Stream with a thermometer graded in 100ths of a degree. No one on Finisterre would think of lounging about during off-hours; each man dons eyeshade and earplugs and hits the sack for some serious sleep. In action, the crew spots trouble so swiftly that Mitchell seldom gives an order. As easily as lowering or raising a window shade...
After reading Nelson Rockefeller's blast at Vice President Nixon last week. President Eisenhower remarked with a trace of bitterness in his voice: "I see the fine hand of Emmet in this." By Emmet he meant Emmet John Hughes, his own speechwriter during the 1952 and 1956 campaigns...
...fellow Canadians" (as he likes to address them) have noticed a change in Diefenbaker's recent television appearances. Gone is the rolling oratory. The Prime Minister now sits quietly behind a desk and speaks in even tones with, as the Vancouver Province noted, "little trace of the evangelist exhorting his flock" that was once his style...
Ebenezer Townsend, supercargo of a New England whaler, noted in his diary on Aug. 19, 1798 that Hawaii's King Kamehameha I, had "a Jew cook." If the cook remained in Hawaii, added Townsend, "I think it will be difficult to trace his descendants, for he is nearly as dark as they...