Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Between delegations on Monday, Nixon managed to find time for a luncheon trip to Fisherman's Wharf with newsmen and Dan Gainey, Minnesota jewelry manufacturer who backed Harold Stassen in 1948 and 1952 but has grown increasingly cool toward Childe Harold. No sooner had Nixon left his car for the block-long walk to the Exposition Grotto than a crowd began to gather. Nixon showed all the pump-handle efficiency of an Estes Kefauver in shaking hands with cab drivers, tourists, shopkeepers, cops, and everyone else he could reach...
Langlie describes the journey: "It was quite a trip. All three of us kids had the whooping cough, and I was worried about my dog, who was in the baggage car. When we got off the train in Seattle, I didn't see either the dog or my father. Then, all at once, we saw the dog tied to a telephone pole and my father coming to welcome us." With dog and father accounted for, Art Langlie looked around, announced, "I'm going to like it here, Mother. I like the trees and the water...
...arrival in Libertyville prompted a new decree by Jim Finnegan: henceforth, Estes will be welded to Adlai with a hyphen, thereby assuring the proper identity of the Stevenson-Kefauver "team." This week teammates and staff climbed aboard a chartered DC-7, headed out on a week-long trip. Purpose: 1) to take regional readings from politicos in the Southwest, Northwest, Middle West and the South; 2) to establish better the identity of the hyphenated pair...
...18th convention) with his blackboard doodlings and a lofty contempt for all the fancy new gadgetry. The NBC tète-à-tètes were again larded with the deadpan humor of Commentator David Brinkley. Between conventions, ABC's baggy-eyed John Daly squeezed in a Manhattan trip to appear on What's My Line?, reported: "The panel told me I look tired. Well, how the hell was I supposed to look...
...California Housewife Earlene Brown, 21, hit on the happy practice of tossing iron balls around the landscape just four months ago, got the hang of it so quickly that she took a trip to Washington, D.C. for the women's Olympic tryouts, heaved the 4-kilo (8 Ibs. 15 oz.) shot a distance of 46 ft. 9½ in. for a new American record and a place on the team. As if to make sure she would get to Melbourne, formidable Earlene (226 Ibs.) also picked up a discus, threw it in a style that recalled a comic-strip...