Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fresh from his trip out on the line in Asia, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles flew home this week, bringing the results of his conferences with Syngman Rhee: a hard and fast treaty of alliance between the U.S. and the Republic of South Korea, which assures the Koreans of U.S. military protection, without binding the U.S. to support any vagaries of Rhee's foreign policy. Also, with a $1 billion aid program, Dulles agreed to build up ravaged South Korea into "an Asian show window of democracy.'" Clearly, the U.S. has firmly planted the flag of freedom...
...probably accept every invitation you send me," he told them, "and I'll send you more." After he climbed back into his plane for the weary trip home, the governors settled down in a warm glow to talk shop...
Prew takes it without a word for months on end. They trip him in bayonet drill, cheat him in rifle inspection, and for every fault they find, Prew has to pay with K.P., extra laps around the track under full pack, or hours of digging enormous holes in the ground so that jeering noncoms can bury a single newspaper. (In the movie, Captain Holmes is forced to resign for his actions; in the book, he was promoted...
...years Sutherland made good money doing academic etchings. Then came the 1929 crash, and the market for etchings collapsed. He spent another seven years searching for an approach to painting he could call his own, and finally found it on a vacation trip to South Wales: "Lying through sheer laziness on the warm shore, my eye became riveted to what it would-some sea-eroded rocks, for instance, which I would notice were reproducing precisely in miniature the form of the inland hills. These and other things delighted me: the twisted gorse on the cliff edge, twigs like snakes lying...
Babes in the Woods. Near Elmira, N.Y., after 200 volunteer searchers spent the night frantically combing the woods for them, Faith Wheelock, n, and her sister, 5, returned from their "camping trip" and complained: "We had a hard time getting to sleep. All those people kept crashing around in the brush...