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Word: tripped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...regularly by air between Denver and the ranch this summer, and had brought his twin-engined Aero Commander plane along as a taxi, but Presidential Pilot William Draper felt that the thin mountain air and the sudden thunderstorms made flying too risky, so Ike reluctantly made the 75-mile trip by Cadillac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Five Days with Grandfather | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

...locations. Last week 66 of the 142 were reclassified as native. This means each must move out of Noordgesig into a native quarter. His children must leave the better Colored schools; he must get a pass to be on the street after dark; he may no longer take a trip out of town without official permission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: SOUTH AFRICA'S TRAGEDY IN COLORS | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

...salt), found aquariums for some boys who had brought a batch of snakes back from camp. He has had some failures, too. He had no solution for the woman who wrote: "Sheriff coming to foreclose tomorrow. Please send $4,000 in cash," and he was unable to finance a trip to the Canadian wilds for a would-be Davy Crockett who wanted to kill himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Back-Fence Chat | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

...voting trick that put the Communists where they are in San Marino arises from the fact that, of San Marino's 6,700 eligible male voters, some 1,700 live out of the country, mostly as migrant laborers. By paying round-trip fares for many of these expatriates at election time, the Communists rounded up enough votes to swing into power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAN MARINO: Allo, Americani | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

...oneway passage to Stockholm. Signed by Universal-International studios at $250 a week, Hillevi had just been handed a bit role in The Benny Goodman Story, as an autograph-hunting U.S. bobbysoxer. A trifle puzzled by the fuss raised over her sudden departure, she later explained that the trip was inspired not by less love of Hollywood but more love of Sweden-and she will return to the U.S. next month. Her urgent mission: to see her fiancé, a Royal Swedish Air Force lieutenant, and to tell her papa, an Upsala businessman who frowns on beauty contests, what this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 22, 1955 | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

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