Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cold war. Economic strength meant a drive to end inflation, and that meant an end to deficit financing. Cost-conscious, Ike was the first President to appoint his Budget Director to a permanent seat on the Cabinet and the National Security Council. Cabinet members not only make the trip to see Rowland Hughes in his office in the Old State Building, but most of them are so well-trained by the rigors of business life that they have a healthy respect for the job he is trying to get done...
...gang met in the Roxbury section of Boston and entered the rear of a Ford stake-body truck, which had been stolen in Boston in November 1949 to be used in the robbery. Including the driver, this truck carried nine members of the gang to the scene. During the trip, seven of the men donned...
...trip to India for a month's preaching, Evangelist Billy Graham, in Louisville for a laymen's conference at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, got a phone call from Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Summoned to Washington, he reported, to confer with Dulles and President Eisenhower, Graham canceled a sermon ("Our Christian Heritage"), hopped a plane that evening. Next day, although he missed seeing Ike, Religious Diplomat Graham emerged from an hour's chat with Dulles in the Secretary's Georgetown home. He had got a solid briefing on India, told waiting newsmen that Foster Dulles...
...pace of U.S. business life has accelerated so furiously that most executives find it difficult to slow down under any circumstances. U.S. businessmen not only work harder than those of any other nation; medical records suggest that they also die oftener and younger from physical disorders caused by the trip-hammer pressures of competition. More than half the businessmen who come in for checkups at Boston's famed Lahey Clinic are so keyed up that they must be warned to slow down or face heart disease, ulcers, colitis and high blood pressure. Of 1,000 executives examined at Detroit...
...trip was successful," Malia said, "because, for the first time, the Russian libraries were really interested in expanding their exchanges. They were ready and willing to be cooperative and I had little trouble in making agreements with them...