Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Buncombe Bob. With the primary only a fortnight away, Frank Graham still seemed to be the man to beat. He had little to worry about from one opponent, demagogic Robert ("Buncombe Bob") Reynolds, 65, who was hitting the comeback trail with his same old isolationist line: "I say stop immigration now and lock the gates securely, because I know we have not a friend on earth." But Reynolds seemed to have lost his punch...
M.I.T. is favored to win the Providence regatta today and tomorrow at the Edge-wood Yacht Club, although Brown and Yale will offer stiff competition, and Harvard, Coast Guard, Rhode Island State, and Boston College are not far behind. Williams and Northeastern are expected to trail the field. The winner will go to California in June for the national title races...
...Afghanistan. Maclean broke into many a forbidden area by the simple expedient of quietly climbing aboard the appropriate train. Provincial units of the NKVD were often too bewildered by Maclean's sudden appearances to know just what to do about him. When they put agents on his trail, Maclean went complacently about his sightseeing of ancient ruins. Sometimes he even became quite chummy with his shadows, sharing meals and train coaches with them...
...last week, Brack Lee's trail was littered with the bones of sacred cows. Early this year, he flatly refused state funds to hire more help for veterans' affairs, although he was a World War I infantryman himself. "I favor all help possible to injured veterans," said he, "but veterans who returned without physical or mental damage should deem it a privilege to have served their country, to say nothing of the experience and travel they gained...
Twenty-one days after she submerged off Hong Kong, the new U.S. snorkel submarine Pickerel surfaced last week off Pearl Harbor, a quarter-way around the world. Her record: 5,200 undersea miles, with only the mouth of her snorkel breathing tube showing her trail on the surface. A few misgivings tempered the Navy's pride in its achievement: after all, Russia -equipped with a fleet of the latest snorkel subs of her own-could launch precisely the same kind of run from the coast of Communist China...