Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ghanians massed behind a fence at the edge of the flag-ringed field to greet him. Quipped the Vice President, leaning over the white fence to shake hands: "In America, we call this the boardinghouse reach." By late this month, when Nixon plans to wind up his current trip, the new Nixon-style boardinghouse reach will have spread far and wide over Moslem and Negro Africa the personal good will of the no longer so distant...
Commissioned by the President to make an eight-nation, 18,000-mile goodwill trip across newly stirring Africa, Ike's No. 1 roving ambassador had landed at Rabat, Morocco's capital, a day earlier, and at once plunged into the person-to-person, handshake-and-smile campaign with which-on five previous overseas missions-he had won new friends for the U.S. from Manila to Guatemala. And already the trip was showing a policy profit. In private talks with Mohammed V, Sultan of Morocco, during which the two leaders discussed the future of U.S. bases in the country...
...seminary there were classes in missions, with emphasis on the length and breadth of this globe-girdling enterprise." Thus the Rev. Theodore A. Gill. 37. managing editor of the Christian Century, describes his personal background for a four-month trip around the world last year to see at first hand what the Protestant missionary enterprise is really like. In the current Christian Century, Presbyterian Gill concludes an eight-part report on the countries of Southeast Asia-the area chosen by the National Council of Churches' Board of Foreign Missions for special study during 1957. Gist of his report...
...less detailed but it had energy, spontaneity and excitement that Marceau cannot equal. The mimes conveyed best of all Barrault's idea of theater as creative play, the purpose of which is to always keep men young in spirit. As he said in Holyoke one night during this trip, when a child grows up he becomes a person, with brillance in his eyes, or he becomes an adult--a corpse...
...would have to win the top five or six matches in order to defeat an undefeated Yale squash team last Saturday. Yale figured it would have to take the bottom five or six matches in order to beat a Crimson varsity which had been caught unawares on a trip to Navy and Princeton and thus had been established as an "underdog" in Saturday's contest...