Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...summer bus service will provide another trip to the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, at Stratford, Connecticut, on August...
...James's coronation, the winner was crowned: Leona Gage (Miss Maryland), 21, a dark-haired stunner (5 ft. 9½ in., 118 Ibs.; 36-23-36). The prizes: a $1,000 wardrobe, a $2,000 contract with a cosmetics firm, a house trailer, a European trip, and a chance to compete with 32 other girls for the job of Miss Universe...
...woman in black walked slowly from a wing of the ornate Kurzaal at Scheveningen, The Netherlands, bowed to the scattered applause, and took her place at the piano. For the next 90 minutes she kept her eyes fixed on the keyboard while her groomed fingers agilely feather-dusted and trip-hammered through Bach's Goldberg Variations. At the last note, she slumped in her seat as wave after wave of applause broke over her bowed head...
...Strange Deception); of lung cancer; in Rome. Born in Tuscany of a German father, Italian mother, Malaparte was called Fascism's "strongest pen" during the '203, turned hostile to the regime and was interned (1933-38), most recently accepted Italian Communist financing of a trip this spring to China, but on his return, seriously ill, was baptized a Roman Catholic. Despite his erratic politics, his more than two dozen books, which ranged from starkly etched studies of Italian peasants and fisherfolk to whimsical mockery of intellectuals and contemporary ideologies, rank him high among Italy's contemporary authors...
Most unions fight moonlighting," fear that it will trip up the drive toward the shorter day or the four-day workweek. They argue that if workers simply use their extra days to take on a second major job, there will be no work-spreading effect to counter either automation or the flood of war babies expected to join the work force in a few years. Furthermore, moonlighting is a powerful argument in itself against the shorter week, and against short hours v. the acquisitive nature of man. At an A.F.L.-C.I.O. conference on the shorter workweek in Washington, George Brooks...