Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twelve members of the Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee went to sea last week, for an overnight ride in the atomic submarine Nautilus. (Said California's Senator William Knowland: "This will be the deepest-thinking congressional committee meeting ever held.") Most Congressmen rushed back from their trip on the top-secret vessel full of enthusiasm and ready with tales of a night...
...operation for cancer and was seeking "spiritual help" for recovery. A little more than a year after her visit to Lourdes she had completely recovered. When they filed their joint 1949 income tax, Joan's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Vincent P. Ring, claimed the cost of the trip to Lourdes ($2,787.19) as a medical expense...
Last week the U.S. Tax Court, in a precedent-setting opinion ruled that the cost of Joan's trip could not be deducted. Before Joan went to Lourdes, said the court, "she appears to have been making a normal recovery without need for further medical services." The ruling implied that even if a church-accepted miracle had occurred, the trip's expenses would not be deductible. The court found nothing in the law "disclosing intent to treat as an expense for medical care the cost of travel to a place for the purpose of seeking spiritual help...
After the gruesome race riot at Elaine, Ark. in 1919, when more than 200 Negroes and three white men were killed, White made his usual trip south. He interviewed Charles H. Brough, the unsuspecting governor of Arkansas, and in the midst of his on-the-spot investigation, he learned that a mob had been tipped off and was looking for him. White prudently caught the first train for Memphis, although the conductor urged him to stay and see the fun. "There's a damned yellow nigger down here passing for white," he said, "and the boys are going...
According to Coach Munro, the purpose of the annual trip is to gain experience for the team. Although the Crimson does not generally do too well against the top college teams, the experience gained is worth the journey, Munro maintains...