Word: trails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federals followed to Peraza's secret camp on Toro Hill. There was a rush, a rattle of musketry. Ten were shot where they lay, ten were captured, two escaped. The old man reached for his rifle and fell with three bullets in him. So rough was the trail that it took 18 hours to carry the old fighter's body five miles to the nearest village. Up and down the length of Cuba went another story. General Peraza, veteran of four wars, had been killed...
...eastern route. Greenland has been attained by planes from North America or Europe three times before. Spitsbergen figured importantly in the Arctic flights of Wilkins, Byrd, Amundsen. But no plane has yet blazed a trail thence into the Orient. Greatest danger on either route: fog. The Lindbergh plane is radio-equipped. Mrs. Lindbergh, who qualified for a private pilot's license last fortnight, will share the controls...
...stands as the President in whose administration occurred one of the most malodorous scandals in the country's history, a scandal whose oily trail led to the resignation under fire of a portion of his cabinet and the conviction of his Secretary of the Interior for taking a bribe from the same oil interests many of whose officials also fell under the penalty...
...jaguars or hostile savages, but lack of water, of food. The stifling, steamy heat was bad but endurable; but once swarms of ihenni flies kept them sleepless for 90 hours. Their mules, exhausted by travel, were nearly finished off by vampire bats. One time Duguid, night-enveloped, riding the trail alone, was halted by two blazing eyes. He was sure it was a jaguar, but Siemel convinced him afterwards it must have been a couple of fireflies; no land animal's eyes are auto-luminous. They met some hostile natives and for a while were surrounded by them, expected...
...chum, and I have been publishing since January. We do it for fun. We like to do it. Billy is twelve, and I am eleven years. We have had fine support for our paper from all the Sourdoughs and old-timers for miles around. And out the Trail...