Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grahams went to the airport coffee shop for dinner. Jack Graham was quite fidgety -he had been feeling queasy all day -and in the midst of the meal he. became nauseated. After a trip to the men's room, he felt a lot better. Later, as they were leaving the restaurant, the Grahams overheard someone saying that a plane had crashed. Unable to get any detailed information at the airport, they drove home. The radio confirmed their apprehensions: Flight 629 had crashed 32 miles north of Denver. Mrs. King and all 43 others aboard the DC-6B were dead...
Last month, when Daisie King packed her belongings for her trip to Alaska, Jack told his wife about a little surprise he had in mind. Daisie's hobby was making costume jewelry out of shells, and Jack had decided to buy her a small drill, of the type used in making shell jewelry, as a Christmas gift. He planned to sneak it into Daisie's suitcase, so mother would be surprised when she got to Alaska...
Which Paris? He never left the North American continent ("Why," he told his wife when she proposed a trip to France, "I haven't even seen Paris, Idaho"). He hated the literary exiles who called themselves lost, and said that the sickness they saw around them was only their own. He despised writers with delusions about the writer's importance ("The importance of literary people is chiefly to one another"), and he insisted that literary criticism was "an activity in which uncontrolled speculation is virtuous and responsibility is almost impossible." DeVoto was a man in search of facts...
Next day, the first day of school, Dean is greeted by his classmates as "a new disease," and during a field trip to the planetarium, a leather-jacketed roughneck slashes a tire on his car. "You read too many comic books." says Dean. They fight with knives. Dean wins. The boy challenges him to a "chickie run" -a dash to the edge of a cliff in two stolen cars; first man to jump out before the cars go over the brink is "chicken." Caught between folly and disgrace. Dean asks his father what to do. Father funks out. Dean makes...
...unique only because of the short duration of their staw was repeated by Jensen, who came to the United States to stury American literature. He plans to write on the subject of utopianism in American literature, when he goes back to Copenhagen. He would like to extend his first trip to the United States by another year, he says, but fears that cuts in government grants-in-aid in the near future will make this plan impossible. Reinhorn and Jensen both say they were surprised and satisfied to have been picked for Harvard out of all the colleges...