Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thunderheads and high winds made for a bumpy trip south, and Mamie peered anxiously out of her window from time to time. The President, however, chatted quietly with his guest, British Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, and a group of golfing companions.* It was cloudy and cold when the Columbine III landed in Augusta, but Thanksgiving morning dawned clear and warm...
Fact was that, though his Washington trip had stirred the people, it had miffed the Assembly. Old EDC supporters and "good Europeans" had been counting on U.S. antipathy to help bring Mendes down, and were dismayed when Dulles pronounced him a "superman." Deputies, jealous of their prerogatives, did not like Mendes' advance assurance that France would make it "a point of honor ... to be among the first to ratify" the Paris agreements...
Slips were passed around and the middies took a vote. Every man on the squad agreed to give up his Christmas leave for a trip to New Orleans and a chance to take on the University of Mississippi in the Sugar Bowl. Not since 1924, when Navy held Army to a scoreless tie and went to the Rose Bowl to tie Washington (14-14), has a team of middies taken advantage of that post-season privilege...
...from the New World," as the letter phrased it, will be allowed to join the trip for only $1500. The safari plans to do most of its work with cameras and tape-recorder...
Wild Blue Yonder. In Milwaukee, police looked for William Ferguson, lecturer (at $1 a head) on the wonders of Mars, after he 1) tried to sell Policewoman Mary Smeaton a brain-relaxing helmet and other souvenirs he said he brought back from his trip to the planet in 1947; 2) told her she would return to her home planet Saturn after 14,000 more years; 3) rhapsodized about Martian food, which the body absorbs without the need for elimination, and Martian water, which can be swum in without getting...