Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aesthetically on the B & M's Steam Safari on Sunday. There were 851 people on the twelve-car train, including what enthusiasts scornfully call "daisy-pickers," or people who simply enjoy a day in the country via the B & M. Enthusiasts came not only from Boston for this special trip. One man traveled for 16 hours from Detroit just to be at North Station for the first, steamy jolt. Others hailed from Washington, Syracuse, Philadelphia and St. John, New Brunswick, while one section of the train was full of insurgent New Yorkers...
...that U.S. District Attorney Anthony Julian had gone to Washington for consultation on the case. One interpretation of these stories is that the Justice Department, although legal propriety forbids its lawyers publicly to discuss a pending case, tipped off court reporters on the possible implications of Julian's trip to prepare opinion in Boston--where the Senator's support is strong--for the inevitable...
Even when he stepped down from his job as editor of the Christian Century last winter, Paul Hutchinson had no thought of retiring from his ministry. There were still more books that he wanted to write, uncounted lectures yet to deliver. His trip through the South was only partly vacation. Worried over the current crisis of desegregation, his host in New Orleans, a Protestant minister, tried to convince him that his only job was to throw oil on troubled waters. Dr. Hutchinson was adamant. Said he: "I am going to praise the Roman Catholic Archbishop of New Orleans...
...more troubled existence than the Dresden collection was subjected to in the years of hot and cold war that followed. Stored by the Germans in some 50 separate underground caches, the paintings were seized by the invading Russians in 1945. tossed helter-skelter into open trucks for the trip to Moscow. For the next decade their whereabouts was a well-kept Soviet secret. Not until the present Soviet leaders staged a red-carpet display of their booty last year at Moscow's Pushkin Museum (TIME, Sept. 12), before handing the collection back to the East Germans, did the Western...
...kind of grotesque pantomime of Beauty and the Beast this afternoon, the very big and fast Cornell football team will press the varsity lacrosse team, adroit but still unvictorious after two games and a spring trip; the Big Red gridders are reportedly not of the best with a stick, but the Crimson is not too big in the biceps and calves...