Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...editor of Zurich's solemn Swiss Review of World Affairs, returning from a trip to the U.S., assured his readers last week that the U.S. has just enjoyed "the happiest summer since 1928." Britain alone in Western Europe has a two-year draft; the rest have anywhere from twelve to 21 months...
...newspapers that about the month of August, ruin would come upon one or two of Bangkok's mighty. Rumor said that Pao fired three astrologers in a row for providinig hin with unfavorable predictions. At the height of this horoscopic crisis. Preimier Pibulsonggram returned from a trip to the U.S., full of a lot of new ideas for trying out democratic ways in Thailand. The most upsetting of these innovations was holding weekly Washington-style press conferences at which squirming ministers sometimes had to answer reporters' questions for hours...
...Your article about Malraux was the reason for many a long discussion and exchange of opinion on board our ship during a recent trip from Naples to Istanbul. It helped greatly to bring passengers from different parts of the world nearer to each other and to understand each other's ideas and ideals...
...farms we visited I believe we were given accurate information. For proper appraisal, however, we should have had more basic economic data than the Russians were willing to provide. Quite early in our trip we asked for. and were promised, data on grain and livestock production, prices, payments for machine-tractor station services, farm employment and farm income. These were never given...
...cavalryman burning to avenge his brother, slain by the Apaches. Disguising himself as the bossman of a mule train, he sets out for a small town on the edge of Apacheland and, unloading his merchandise, moves out to some nearby salt lagoons to get a cargo for his return trip. Suddenly a line of horsemen come galloping along the skyline. Apaches? No, it's a psychotic cowboy (Alex Nicol) and his henchmen. Before you can say "Oedipus complex," Nicol has galloped down the ridge, lassoed Jimmy, dragged him through a bonfire, killed his mules and burned his wagons...