Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contrast to free South Viet Nam, heavily U.S.-subsidized, where any peasant can get seven acres of fertile ground from the government for the asking. Outright rebellion flared in the predominantly Catholic province of Nghean (TIME, Nov. 26), and China's Premier Chou En-lai paid a hurried trip to Hanoi, obviously on a troubleshooting errand like the Russians' trips to Warsaw and Budapest at about the same time. To the Central Committee, Truong confessed "many mistakes and shortcomings committed with disastrous effects." and was downgraded to vice chairman of the reparations campaign...
Problems & Precedent. .Talmadge's stem-winding oratory was deflated by Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, whose Middle Eastern trip last month made him a firmer advocate of Eisenhower foreign policy. "If one wishes to engage in finding very little blisters on the trunk of the great oak tree," said Democrat Humphrey, "it is possible to make it appear that the oak is almost ready to collapse, or that it never should have been a tree in the first place. But if one considers the totality of the program and does not concentrate on a little error here...
...lawyer suits, prefers milk to martinis. After death of first wife in 1951. married attractive, capable Olive Freeman Palmer. A thunderous, fire-snorting orator, during the campaign he spoke with evangelistic fervor even when there were no more than a dozen people listening. Major interests: work, an occasional fishing trip alone, and the Baptist Church, in which he is a leading layman...
...water from collecting, have been buried far beneath the new roads, a possible puzzle for future archaeologists. A classic case of inconvenience occurred when a new road cut off a farmer's privy from his house, forcing him either to build a new one or make an eightmile. trip and pay a toll. (He built a new one.) In Atlanta, an apartment building is being moved from the path of a new road while tenants continue to live in it with the services of all utilities...
...flash like pips across his screen of consciousness and tell him how a people feels or where it is going. Such pips often come at the oddest moments. A smartly dressed, tart-tongued Chinese career woman from Hong Kong brought Coates a pair of knitted socks after a business trip to Formosa. Asked the surprised Coates: "You knitted them in-in Taipei?" Quipped she sardonically: "Of course, dear. In Taipei everybody knits-nothing else to do." Watching the sacred wooden temples of Nara, 8th century capital of Japan, Author Coates senses the painstaking, frustrating drive towards perfectionism in the Japanese...