Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Next day, the President took off on a whirlwind speaking trip to Cleveland, Detroit, Louisville and Wilmington. By leaving Washington at 7:25 a.m. and returning at 7:14 p.m., the President traveled some 1,500 miles and averaged an incredible 125 m.p.h., including stops. Everywhere he went, his theme was Peace and Prosperity: "We won't go to war in order to get work." At his last stop, in Delaware, Ike had a suggestion to make: "If everybody here in this audience would go home this evening and start calling up-would call ten voters and ask them...
...backstage with the enthralled cast and learned what a Western sandwich is ("It sounds delicious").* Three women from Cleveland who sat directly behind Her Majesty were almost overwhelmed by it all. "I just leaned over and touched her, just to say I did," commented one. "It has made our trip...
Higher Tea & Scrabble. On a trip to the top of the Empire State Building, Her Majesty was enchanted with the view, refused to come down until she had seen the full glory of a Manhattan sunset and consumed three cups of tea. When she emerged, in the five-o'clock rush hour, a swirling, near-hysterical crowd almost swept her off her feet, and only a flying wedge of policemen got her safely into her black Rolls-Royce...
...fugitive to sit or lie down; all he could do was crouch on the metal plate at the base of the machine. He had read in a book on Yoga that meat increases thirst, so all he took with him for what he estimated would be a six-day trip was four bottles of water and two loaves of dry bread...
...Both ourselves and China cherish peace," India's 64-year-old Jawaharlal Nehru told a farewell press conference in Peking last week. He heatedly denied that his trip had revealed "serious differences" between him and the Chinese Communists, conceding only that "India's basic approach is somewhat different" from Red China's. At a farewell banquet, Nehru grandiloquently hailed Mao Tse-tung as "Great warrior! Great revolutionary! Great builder and consolidator!", pausing only to add: "May he now be a great peacemaker also...