Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After these two senior colleagues had spoken, there was a moment of silence in the room. Churchill looked around slowly. "Well," he grunted, "doesn't anyone else have anything to say?" Then everyone spoke at once: they were solidly opposed to Churchill's trip...
...imagine in outline the first few weeks of a war under conditions about which we did not know when this session commenced . . . would, I am sure, convince honorable gentlemen of the obsolescence of the base . . ." In other words, what Winston Churchill had learned about the H-bomb on his trip to Washington had changed his mind...
...have an attack only once a month," he says. "I'm so healthy, I'm a dynamo. I need only four hours' sleep a night." On their way back to Canada, the Sathers visited U.S. museums by day, camped in the fields when darkness fell. The trip took all their remaining funds. Until Sather found his new job, the going was rough...
...Sather matter-of-factly, "you can do it. My wife and I both had everything we wanted as children; now we've learned to appreciate what we can get. I believe my old station wagon is as good as a Rolls-Royce, if my car can make the trip...
...Round Trip. In Gävle, Sweden, Irene Karlson borrowed a friend's motorbike, found she did not know how to stop it, rode 50 miles down the road until it ran out of gas, took the bus home...