Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Your account of Wheeler's trip to Tokyo -"I am thinking of being circumcised as a health measure" and that he stopped off at a brothel-can hardly be anything but poor taste. If you have no regard for family and friends back home, at least don't make us cringe...
...with Latecomer Boyle, an old hand at going after the frontrunner. Last year Boyle jumped into a G.O.P. primary between Senator Alexander Wiley and conservative ex-Congressman Glenn Davis, helped Wiley win by picking off about 5% of Davis' conservative vote. He makes no bones about trying to trip Walter Kohler in the same fashion. "If Kohler is beaten," he explained, "the Republican Party of Wisconsin will have to nominate a conservative in 1958. If by some quirk Proxmire wins, he will be easily beaten in 1958 by a conservative Republican...
...South Viet Nam's doughty President Ngo Dinh Diem set off last week on a four-day state visit to neighboring Thailand, he was tactially informed that his favorite white sharkskin suit would not be proper at the Royal Thai court. He dispatched an aide on an emergency trip to Hong Kong, but when Diem took one look at the Western-style cutaway, striped pants and grey top hat that the aide brought back, he snorted in disgust and refused to wear them...
...that any minute now it will be valuable as a collector's item. Pull out those tubes, plant it with philodendron, and there's your conversation piece." But then-every time the Kerrs save up $299 for a bigger set, they use the money to take a trip some place where there...
Baby Sitting to Cad Kicking. The Sketch's Powell-play was a London summer phenomenon brought on by newspaper circulation managers' frantic efforts to keep their papers selling (the Daily Mail was offering a bus trip to Moscow...