Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...invitations confronted the prisoners' families with a difficult choice. They were torn between a desire to see their imprisoned kin, doubts about Red China's motive, and the practical difficulties involved in making the trip. The most enthusiastic of the invited were Mr. and Mrs. Harold Fischer Sr. of Swea City, Iowa, the parents of Air Force Captain Harold Fischer. For some time they had been writing to their son and to his captors about visiting him. Farmer Fischer had written that he might bring along some of his registered Hampshire hogs. His son had reported the reaction...
There was never much trouble getting it to Soldiers Field on its custom-built bicycle-wheeled carriage, but travel was another matter. In 1948, for example, when the varsity played at Princeton, the band truck was not big enough to hold the drum. Eventually, it made the trip in time aboard a specially chartered plane...
...years ago. In the centuries since, many another nubile Greek girl, along with her father, has complained of this state of things; in Greece an adequate dowry is a far more important prerequisite to marriage than a pretty face. In Salonika a weary housemaid recently made the trip to the altar after having scratched for seven long years to raise the $500 demanded as a marriage settlement. A shepherd from the slopes of Mt. Olympus turned his true love down cold when her father produced only $600 of a promised $800. Even in up-to-date Athens, where marriageable women...
...captain neither agreed nor resisted when Scotland Yard men took Eisler off the Batory at Southampton. For this, when he docked at Gdynia, Cwiklinski sat through a palm-sweating grilling with his bosses and the dreaded U.B. (for Urzad Bezpieczenstwa), Poland's secret police.* On the return trip to New York, the Batory's crew and passengers were in turn grilled by U.S. Government agents, and the eventual loss of pier privileges forced the Poles to give up the transatlantic run. No Communist or proCommunist, Cwiklinski tried to coexist with the Polish satellite regime for the sake...
...Students has used the story to woo students from neutral nations into its organization. But the State Department can easily refute this propaganda by granting entrance visas to the Soviet editors. The well-chaperoned visitors surely could discover no defense secrets from student newspapers and student councils, and the trip would increase U.S. prestige...