Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only fit career, and Nuri went to a local Turkish military school that prepared candidates for the military academy in Constantinople. At twelve he nearly died of typhoid, but Baghdad's only doctor nursed him through, and in 1903 he was ready to make the hard trip to Constantinople and the three-year course at the academy. In a mule-team caravan with 72 other boys bound for the academy, he traveled 27 days across bandit-infested desert to Alexandretta and caught the boat for Constantinople. In all it was a 40-day trip that Nuri now makes...
...almost all of his aircraft but scoring three hits and starting fires. At 1245 Yamaguchi threw in his last ten torpedo bombers and six fighters, remnant of Nagumo's force of 250 plus, led by a lieutenant who knew he had only enough fuel for a one-way trip. The result: slaughter for the Japanese planes by U.S. fighters and antiaircraft, but two torpedo hits on Yorktown, enough to cripple her and leave her a mark, two days later, for a Japanese submarine...
HELICOPTER TOURS of the French château country will be started this summer by Belgium's Sabena World Airlines. It will offer nine-hour trip for close view of twelve Loire Valley châteaux (price: $72), plus 80-minute trip over six castles (price...
...survivors could not be reached last night, and were understood to have accompanied a detachment of soldiers which had been dispatched from nearby Camp Dodge Testing Station to recover the body. The detachment had left on the 13-mile trip in the afternoon, and was making progress at the rate of about one mile per hour. They were expected to return to the Racine House Hotel, in Randolph, N.H., early this morning...
Just Packing. In Rochester, ordered by a judge to leave town right away after he was caught in an attempted burglary, George Williams, 22, was nabbed 14 hours later repeating the crime, explained that he was looking for money and a new pair of shoes for the trip...