Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...legendary Northwest Passage, a direct water route across the top of North America, has been the goal of navigators since Explorer Henry Hudson perished trying to find it in 1611. Norway's famed Roald Amundsen made a trip across in the 47-ton yacht Gjöa in 1905; the 80-ton Royal Canadian Mounted Police schooner St. Roch (TIME, Aug. 2), commanded by Mountie Superintendent Henry A. Larsen, in 1942 became the first vessel to make the passage from west to east. But both Amundsen and Larsen sailed through Prince of Wales Strait, detouring around the broader, more...
...proof of this, Guy recalls the time he was away on a trip to California. "When I returned, all the drunks and book ies thought I had been in jail for three months." In a career that has ranged from chicken-farming to vaudeville, being a jailbird is about the only activity that Guy has missed...
Fish Story. In La Porte, Ind., Louise Cooper, 48, complained to police that she had been abandoned at Clear Lake by her husband and brother after a fishing trip on which she tangled her lines, caught nothing...
...fantastic, me having this job," McKay told the crowds on a trip home to Oregon last year. "I'm just a country boy, just a punk governor from a little state." His appointment as Secretary of the Interior, he said, reminded him of the small boy who entered his pet pooch in a pedigreed dog show; when told he was sure to lose, the boy replied, "That's all right-I didn't expect him to win. I just wanted to enter him so he could meet a lot of nice dogs...
...first vacation as Secretary, after the hard-driving Alaskan swing, McKay went on a hard-riding packhorse trip in California's Yosemite National Park (part of Interior's domain). For five days McKay, wearing a comfortable cowboy outfit, roughed it frontier-style-riding the steep Sierra trail, cooking in the open, camping out at night. This week, at his summer house on the Oregon coast, he relaxed with his family (13 in all, with Mabel McKay cooking...