Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next, the small but pivotal Liberal Party named the Rev. James H. Robinson, 46, a popular Presbyterian pastor whose round-the-world trip in 1951 as a missionary ambassador at large (TIME, April 28, 1952) had a highly effective, if unofficial, propaganda value for the U.S. This left the Tammany Democrats out on a limb with a non-Negro candidate. Assemblyman Herman Katz of Manhattan. After some hurried conferences, Katz withdrew...
...Martin, a fellow Bay Stater, set up the committee largely because Herter convinced him that Congress could not trust the Truman Administration's figures on European needs, should get its own statistics. Herter led his 17 Congressmen and a pride of experts off on a two-month trip to Europe. He sternly forbade his crew to bring either wives or tuxedoes, and so strict were his rules against extracurricular nonsense that this sign appeared on the door of the Queen Mary's lecture room...
...Orleans, Mrs. Francis Nixon, 68-year-old mother of Vice President Richard Nixon, was caught catnapping her way across the country by sitting up on a three-day and three-night train trip from California to Florida (where she will sell some property). "Of course, my sons wouldn't approve," she confided, "but I like to travel that way. You meet so many nice people in the coach...
Still lumbering about Europe before getting on with his African trip, Ernest Hemingway described his latest literary output to a Paris interviewer in the Ritz bar: "Been working steady for three years. Finished three books since Old Man and the Sea. Going to let them lie for a year and then go back over them again. Don't have any titles for any of them yet. I never select a title until the book is finished...
...trout streams of Banff and Jasper, Canada, Joe DiMaggio was asked if the presence of Marilyn Monroe, on location near Jasper, had anything to do with his fishing trip. Said he: "Purely coincidental ... Of course, if I can see my girl I shall...