Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good lot. There was a small boy with his father, and a small executive with his secretary, and the nattily uniformed bus driver who collected the money-"no half fares." Vag chose a seat near his companions and settled back, his heart pounding at the prospect of the trip ahead. Smiling, he mused wistfully over the great educational centers and historical points of interest he was about...
...exhibits, and the father was over near the door with the little boy, boxing the child's ears. Although he was afraid to ask, Vag wondered just what the glass flowers had to do with education at Harvard. But the tour people had said this was an educational trip, and that was enough...
...varsity entrained for Ithaca last night and will take a brief shooting practice this afternoon to get accustomed to the Cornell court, and to work out their kinks after the long trip. Before leaving, Coach Norm Shepard commented, "Cornell has a very good ball club; they have everything except an outstanding star like Jack Molinas or Ernie Beck...
...taking in New England and California, Chicago and New Orleans. She traveled by plane, train, automobile, bus and river boat. She also walked, seeing more of New York in a few weeks than many New Yorkers see in a lifetime. America Day by Day is the diary of her trip, a mixed salad of surface impressions, often crisp and pungent, more often hand-me-down gossip and soggy ad hoc generalizations, mostly unripe...
Like many foreigners and not a few Americans, Tourist de Beauvoir hated racialism and loved orange juice, big breakfasts, drugstores, jazz (Chicago and New Orleans style), as well as movies, museums, old cowboy songs and. at the right time, a hamburger. Toward the end of her trip she began to learn that Americans were individuals and as hard to generalize about as Frenchmen. But she faithfully kept on generalizing. Relations between the sexes were difficult in the U.S., she feared. "Men shut themselves up in their clubs, women take refuge in theirs." Sexual frustration seemed typical, with the women frigid...