Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dispel the gloom and to stiffen his countrymen's resolution to achieve prosperity and independence, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer gathered together six Cabinet ministers and made a flying postconference trip to Berlin. To the 2,200,000 West German citizens of this beleaguered isle in the German Red sea, he promised generous help from Bonn to fight unemployment, expand West Berlin commerce with West Germany and meet the city's big budget deficit of 900 million Deutsche Marks ($214,285,000). To the 17 million East Germans, for whom the Berlin conference was a last forlorn hope...
Still, to win the necessary two-thirds majority, Adenauer and his parliamentary whips had to squeeze the Bundestag roster like a grapefruit−one Deputy was called back from a trip to the U.S., another had 32 to be carried in with a broken leg that had just been set at a hospital. In the first real demonstration of the vast strength he assembled in last September's election victory, Adenauer carried his amendment by nine more than two-thirds...
...honors in someone else might betoken a staid and settled dignity, but in Miss Cam they are landmarks in a life that has kept forever on the move. At nearly seventy, she and her sister jostled across the United States sitting up in a train, to take a bus trip up and down the West Coast--a trip that she had never been able to afford when at Bryn Mawr...
...team leaves for its annual spring trip on April 4, with games scheduled at Stephens, Maryland, Princeton, Navy, and Virginia...
...railroads to carry freight cars by water. Using specially designed ramp-loaded ships, the company plans to drive trailers on board at a Southern port, steam them north at 20-knot speeds, where waiting trucks would take them to inland customers. Each ship would make six round trips monthly between Wilmington, N.C. and Northern ports with 240 trailers each trip...