Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ploys of bureaucracy, the 1956 wave of huddled masses was a strange but warming experience. In Vienna, the U.S. Consulate staff processed the stream of Hungarians round the clock; even Pennsylvania's Democrat Francis Walter, co-author of the restrictive McCarran-Walter Immigration Act, returned from an inspection trip along the Austro-Hungarian border (where he saw a rebel shot down) to demand that the U.S. quota of arriving refugees be raised from 5,000 to 17,000. The Army reached fast, far and wide to find GIs of Hungarian descent, to include them in a special detachment mobilized...
...longtime Nehru admirer, cabled a bitter protest at India's stand. Nervously, Nehru's own Foreign Office warned him that by equivocating on Hungary he was jeopardizing his position in the Asian bloc, and reducing the likelihood that any profit would come out of his forthcoming trip...
...refusal to discuss even a Balmoral barbecue forces newsmen to patch up stories from gossip, invention and half-truth. Important royal events outside the palace, complain reporters, are usually handled by bumbling local officials. Only when newsmen threatened to boycott Princess Margaret's recent African tour in mid-trip was she allowed to make news by mingling with the natives, thus realize the tour's main aim: to publicize Britain's ties with her East African territories...
...sacrifice of all personal interests"-including, it soon became clear, the pleasures of anonymity. Hammarskjold came to recognize that in a job whose prestige comes from acting as the world's conscience, there is no substitute for dramatic gestures. The first fruit of this realization was on a trip to Peking in January 1955, to negotiate with Chou Enlai for the release of 15 captive U.S. flyers. "Everything the Secretary-General said to Chou could have been said by diplomatic pouch," admits a U.N. bureaucrat. "But the physical fact of the trip served to focus world attention and moral...
...hospital cot, and Iran was in danger of a Communist coup. That danger is safely past. Iran's Premier is a former ambassador to, and a good friend of, the U.S. The 37-year-old Shah now has firm control of his country, and on a recent trip to Moscow ably defended his country's membership in the anti-Communist Baghdad Pact. Americans help train the army, advise many government departments. Iran usually sides with the Arabs, but disliked Nasser's seizure of the Suez Canal Company...