Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...White House, London and Washington simultaneously announced another British visit: Prime Minister Harold Macmillan would land in Washington this week for summit talks with the President about the gravity of Soviet missile diplomacy and Soviet penetration in the Middle East. It was the first emergency-induced U.S. trip for a British Prime Minister since Clement Attlee came during the Korean crisis...
During their Bermuda conference last March, the President and Macmillan informally agreed to future meetings; a Macmillan trip to Washington had since been tentatively planned for next February. The speedup, arranged through regular State Department-Foreign Office channels (the President did not directly speak to Macmillan by telephone), came only after Russian threats had placed the cold war on a new and urgent basis. Subjects on the Eisenhower-Macmillan agenda...
...sooner had the announcement of the Macmillan trip been made than Khrushchev demanded that he be included in a new summit meeting. Khrushchev's other-side-of-the-mouth belligerence had already ruled out any such possibility. But he had nonetheless done the free world a favor. By creating an emergency over Sputnik and the Middle East, he had newly welded the Atlantic alliance, perilously creaky since Suez, and inspired its members to get on with their business of collaboration...
Reider, still bothered by his respiratory ailment, did not make the trip, nor did sophomore Ed Martin, who is still under the weather with the flu. Dartmouth's top two runners were also felled by the ubiquitous oriental...
They left the University at 8 p.m. Wednesday night on the 2000 mile, nonstop trip. They must continue at a steady 45 m.p.h. pace in order to arrive in time...