Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Greenland to Greece. There was a nagging fear that ECA might help keep Europe convalescent but never put it back on its feet. There was also a petulant feeling that Europe should get off its hunkers. Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch seemed to share this mood. Back from a quick trip to Europe, he was asked whether Europe might help itself more if the U.S. helped it less. "There's a heap of sense in that," he said...
...Grand Hotel. Next day he made amends by posing for bathing-suit photographs. (Observed Milan's weekly Oggi: "Churchill has very thin ankles, absolutely disproportionate to his weight . . . Nobody can say Churchill in a bathing suit is very attractive . . .") Then he made arrangements to go on a painting trip in a motorboat. It banged into a pier, had to be repaired before he got aboard...
Meanwhile, the Chilean Foreign Ministry had received an angry complaint from the Peruvian embassy over the moving of the ambassador's wreaths. The chief of protocol had already donned his white gloves for a trip to the Alameda to correct this outrage when news of the stolen garlands reached him. He sensibly decided to await further developments...
...community with interests common to all," he wrote. "Attendance at church Sunday by Sunday was maybe, to a certain extent, conventional, but at least it brought those who came to worship into a 'real' fellowship. Nowadays, it is the screaming fellowship of the motor-coach trip, the beer-blown friendship of the jug and bottle, the oily fellowship of the fish-&-chip saloon, the sandy-pebbly fellowship of the trippers on the beaches on Sundays, the near-naked-truth fellowship of those who go down to the sea in slips...
...Hours Across. The Comet can, however, cut the long, boring flight across the Atlantic almost in half. It is expected to make New York nonstop from London in six to seven hours; it would be no trick at all to make a round trip in a day. Four hops could get it to Australia in 36 hours. De Havilland hopes that many passengers in a hurry will gladly pay extra for speed...