Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fixed 90%-of-parity price supports made in his major farm speech at Newton. Iowa (TIME, Oct. 1). he rounded out his case (see box) at Oklahoma City, picturing the farmer's lot under the Republicans in terms of despair and suffering. Then he took off for a trip through the South, but by midweek he was back in Missouri, thence to Indiana...
...time Candidate Richard Nixon went back aboard his DC-6 after enduring the 92° heat in Phoenix, Ariz, last week, his face was flushed, his voice hoarse and his temperature up to nearly 100°. His friend and trip physician, Dr. Malcom Todd, made the diagnosis: weakened by a solid month's worry, strain and work, with only a day and a half of rest, Dick Nixon had a severe case of flu. Todd began dosing Nixon with Achromycin and Mysteclin, spraying his raw throat with cortisone and Pontocaine, urged him to slow down his 15,000-mile...
...special occasion." His mother, Ida Littman Javits, had been abandoned by her parents in Palestine and forced to start work at the age of six. Illiterate until she was past 50, she helped support her family by selling dry goods from a pushcart (last winter, on a trip to Israel, Javits stopped in Safed to dedicate Ida Littman Javits Street). The Javits family lived rent-free because Immigrant Morris Javits worked as janitor for three verminous tenements. In these tenements were enough voters to whet Tammany's appetite. An arrangement was made: at election time, Morris Javits reported...
...Happy, Captain?" At noon Coppola invited me to an enormous lunch of spaghetti, steak, and plenty of strong Neapolitan wine, and unburdened himself: "If the Egyptians have enough men like this pilot, they can easily run the canal." Shiaty was making his third full-length trip in five days. "It's really killing, this work, but we have to do it," he said, nibbling at a sandwich. "It's my country. Wouldn't you do the same?" I asked Wilters, the German, for his opinion. "I better not talk politics," he said...
...ship rounded the bend into Suez Harbor, elation broke out all over the bridge. Shiaty. beaming with pride, called: "You happy, Captain?" Said Coppola: "Ten hours! In the 30 years I've been going through the canal, this is the fastest transit. The last trip took 18 hours, and the French pilot had so much wine that we had to keep him awake with coffee. I'm glad they're gone, these foreigners." "We don't need them," said Shiaty. "They won't be back." Then he shook hands with the captain and headed down...