Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could easily be loaded in such a way that a space of two cubic yards would be left free inside. Muffled within such a rolling coffin, even the cries of the children should pass undetected. Just to make sure, however, Bedrich planned to keep the children drugged during the trip...
...Herald Tribune, which was not directly involved in the strike, since its engraving is done outside its plant. Nevertheless, Trib President Mrs. Helen Rogers Reid brought out one issue of an eight-page paper, then announced that she was suspending publication "until further notice." (She then left on a trip to Paris.) The Trib suspended because the Times made it clear that if the Trib continued to publish, the Times might settle independently with the union, thus probably forcing the others to settle also. Since the Trib could ill afford a settlement at the engravers' terms, it gave...
This afternoon's Navy match marks the opening of a rugged weekend for the varsity squashmen. This evening, the team leaves for Montreal and a match tomorrow night with McGill University. On the return trip, the Crimson stops off in Hanover, N.H., to meet Dartmouth on Monday afternoon...
...people of the sunny Guatemalan town of Escuintla (pop. 31,000) last week chose as their mayor a candidate who was in faraway Moscow on election day. The absentee mayor-elect, Gabriel Carney, had not bothered to campaign for votes-that would have cut into his trip behind the Iron Curtain with Guatemala's Communist Boss Jose Manuel Fortuny. But he headed the local Labor (Communist) Party ticket, and the tightly organized slaughterhouse workers of Escuintla voted him into office...
...squanders his talents and dies in a debtors' prison, the rigorous moralist writing his story extends his compassion and pleads for that of the reader. In Le Fanu's The Room in the Dragon Volant, a rich and credulous Englishman is tricked on a trip to France by a pretty girl and a couple of Gallic sharpsters, but emerges somewhat wiser from the coffin in which they have nailed him. In Meredith's The Case of General Ople and Lady Camper, a complex English lady joins battle with a simple British general, reduces his defenses, and finally...