Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...willing to supply the major part of the capital to finish the mighty three-mile dam. But the offer was left dangling. Nasser, who had mortgaged $200 million worth of cotton not yet planted as barter for Czechoslovakian weapons, occupied himself by recognizing Red China and by planning a trip to Moscow. And when Soviet Minister Dmitri Shepilov visited Cairo last month, Nasser's spokesman whispered that Russia had renewed its offer to finance the dam with a 20-year loan...
Ploddingly, patiently, Sevier stitched his case together. Marine training regulations were entered in the record. A witness recited the tide tables. The court made a trip to the scene of the Ribbon Creek tragedy; Sergeant McKeon stood with his judges on the grassy bank, and stared expressionless into the dark water. Back in the steaming auditorium, survivors of Platoon 71 told of the death march. When he first joined Platoon 71, Private Earl Grabowski, 18, had been known as a crybaby; now, with manful calm, he told of the march, sparing neither McKeon, the platoon nor the Marine Corps. Said...
...sparsely attended failure. Newsmen, watching the convalescing U.S. President dutifully handle the formal niceties on the first day of the conference, quizzed Press Secretary James Hagerty about his boss's health. Hagerty's answer: "He's not completely recovered, but he wanted to make this trip and take part in these ceremonies...
...sharp a competitor to underrate his own talents or misjudge a rival, Johnson began pointing for the 1956 contest back in 1952, when as a 16-year-old high-school sophomore he went to Tulare, Calif., to see Bob Mathias earn a trip to his second Olympics. The complicated scoring was beyond young Rafe (as it is beyond almost everyone else but the judges), but he was not too modest to decide that he was as good as or better than most of the entrants...
Alex Falconer is a bearded, swashbuckling lieutenant who bullies his crew and junior officers, gulps down immense quantities of whisky, cheats at cards, and wenches indiscriminately. The slow trip down Britain's east coast becomes, in part, Lieutenant Falconer's uneasy odyssey in search of his own soul-a search begun when he learns that a chance bed companion is to bear him a child, and completed when he walks along the littered beach at Normandy. "All along the shore, bodies-beautiful, naked, torn and shattered bodies, a head here, an arm, a leg there-protruded like marbles...