Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wanderers, the Cuirara tribe became prosperous, passport-carrying salesmen, who drive in style up and down Europe in search of fresh markets for their cars. Only two months ago, Queen Mimi and an entourage of 50 set out in six Buicks, a Cadillac and seven towed caravans, on a trip to Rome. Queen Mimi never made it. At Lendinara, ill with diabetes and a succession of heart attacks, she was forced to go to the hospital...
...newcomers are grabbing business mostly by making themselves the "discount houses of the air." Brazil's big Real-Aerovias charges only $432 for the round-trip excursion flight between Miami and Buenos Aires, as compared with the $779 asked by International Air Transport Association members such as Pan American. Panama's Aerovias flies from Panama to Miami for $55, v. the standard $94-and serves Scotch highballs on the house. Last week, grimly preparing to meet the competition, Panagra got set to introduce an excursion fare of its own that will undercut I.A.T.A. rates...
...Sample round-trip fares...
Soon the truth was out. While still at sea on his nine-day trip from New York, the Cardinal had developed an ache in his right arm. At first it had been ascribed to recurrence of the "writer's cramp" he had apparently suffered in Chicago, the result of his characteristic thoughtfulness in writing personal replies to thousands of letters of congratulation on his appointment. But the ache had grown to pain, and the pain to agony...
...five-week trip to the U.S., Lancaster, 50, took along his cartoon regulars, banjo-eyed Maudie and her mustached husband Willie, Earl of Littlehampton. Gasped Maudie in a supermarket: "Haven't you got anything-but anything-that's been touched by human hand?" But everywhere Lancaster went, he was impressed by the change in Americans and Americana: André Gide on drugstore newsracks instead of "a couple of Mickey Spillanes," polite cab drivers, even architecture "with a new restrained look . . . the severe but effective cliffs of steel and glass that now dominate Park Avenue." Furthermore, "voices are quieter...