Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into a three-point landing on New Zealand's Rakahanga island, a full 1,000 miles away. A government clerk spotted the note clipped to the wing, and relieved the errant frigate of his burden. It took a telegram, many more days, a set of stamps, two airplane trips, a boat trip and the combined efforts of both the New Zealand and French postal systems to undo the work of the bird who flew not wisely but too well...
...sure did stir up those Ohio State players. Right away you could see them stiffen their backs and begin to bow their necks. I guess those State players got to .thinking that they didn't want to be hearing all winter how the Little Women had missed a trip to Los Angeles just because they weren't men enough to beat us Wolverines...
They did indeed. In just ten minutes the married Buckeyes scored two touchdowns and made sure that their wives would get that trip to the Rose Bowl...
...show went on, Teacher Bill Smith, 49, a veteran staffer on Broadway's weekly trade sheet Billboard, became more and more embarrassed. The trip, he decided, was a terrible mistake. He had forgotten how low burlesque had sunk. But his students showed nothing but scholarly interest in the struts, bumps and grinds, the unprintable gags. Gushed one mink-coated student: "I always thought it was much, much worse than this...
Return Engagement. In Philadelphia, Trolley Operator Edward Palumbo identified Walter Green as the man who had grabbed his bag containing change on the outbound trip, jumped off the car, waited for Palumbo to return on his inbound trip, hopped aboard again and snatched Palumbo's money changer...