Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those little men from the security police who tail you, the knowledge that your telephone is tapped, and the interesting things the Communist newspapers write about you" (one described Low as "the Ronald Colman-type champion of American imperialism"). As a final bit of intelligence extracted from his last trip behind the Curtain, Low reports that the hottest black market item now is playing cards. None have been manufactured there since before the war, and there are no Communist allocations for reviving the industry. Low's deck of cards was virtually snatched from him by a waiter...
...class will be the third in a series of annual inter-city basketball games under the auspices of the Phillips Brooks House Social Service Committee. Twenty-seven Boston boys will make the trip, every one of them out for revenge for the double defeat suffered by Boston teams in last year's games held here...
When they get back after Easter, they will join the 25 other varsity candidates and start competing for jobs on the regular team. "Everyone will be equal," says Barclay. "We won't give a special advantage to the men on the southern trip...
Washburn's wife, who also made the trip, became the first woman over to make the top of Mt. McKinley and is supposed to have climbed higher than any other woman in the world...
Usually, all the outdoor work the Crimson gets is a few cold, windy weeks in the fall and a few cold, windy weeks in the spring. This lack of seasoning is what worries Barnaby when he thinks of the approaching southern trip that traditionally opens the season. On Monday and Tuesday, April 4 and 5, the Crimson will be a decided underdog against heavily loaded North Carolina. But Barnaby hopes his men will learn enough in these games to beat Navy and Army on Wednesday and Friday of that week...