Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jeep. Instead this was a party of five, including two American members of a technical aid mission to Iran, 37-year-old Kevin Carroll of Issaquah, Wash, and Brewster Wilson, 35, of Portland, Ore. With Carroll's pretty young wife Anita in their party, they had started their trip across the desert without taking the routine precaution of telling the local gendarmery. Armed with a shotgun and a revolver, the ambushed Americans fought off the bandits, seeking shelter behind a rock when their tires were punctured by shots and holding out until their ammo was exhausted. The fight...
...handsome, two-volume medical work last week was startled to find, under the unscientific heading, "Oops!", this homely advice: "Once a graft has been cut, it should be folded, wrapped in a damp gauze and put in a safe place until time for its application. Too often in its trip around the theatre it gets thrown in the wastebucket or dropped on the floor. Pick it up. wash it and get on with the job. It happens in the best of clinics!" And, as the kickoff to a chapter entitled "Flap Happy," there are these wry definitions: "A graft...
...Barcelona and at King's College, Cambridge. Last week's recital revealed Soler as a composer of technical virtuosity and sharply contrasted emotional effects in the Domenico Scarlatti tradition. Simple and water-clear in the slower passages, the sonatas were riffled suddenly with far-flung arpeggios and trip-hammer repetitions, combining stately classic patterns with intricately shifting, popular Spanish rhythms. Pianist Marvin played them deftly, even if he sometimes seemed rigid with dedication. He plans to record the sonatas, hopes they will help put the Padre Soler's long-neglected name beside such 18th century giants...
...mysterious piece of hardware was carefully cantilevered down from a vertical position inside a closely guarded seven-story shed. Draped in a white canvas shroud, lashed to a yellow, tubular steel trailer, the top-secret cargo was hauled out onto U.S. Highway 80 to begin a 2,500-mile trip across the southern U.S. As it rolled over the mountains, across the plains and into the towns, it looked like a wrapped-up oil tank. Nothing betrayed the presence of the most monstrous potential new weapon in the U.S. arsenal-designed to be fired 5,500 miles along a ballistic...
Last week, just two days before he was scheduled to leave for the U.S., Erhard's dream castle came tumbling down. First came a peremptory message from Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's vacation retreat at Lake Como: cancel the trip. Next day, back in his Bonn office again, Adenauer called Erhard in for a face-to-face wigging. "I do not want anyone going over to the U.S., saying that the Common Market is disadvantageous," said Konrad Adenauer, and particularly in the week when ministers of the six nations would gather in Italy to sign the documents...