Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...including a delegation of Texans led by Republican National Committeeman Jack Porter, went up to Washington to tell their story and to ask for help. Last week Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson flew to Texas to make a speech at a cotton convention in Lubbock, and turned his trip into a drought-inspection tour...
...Business Trip. In Gaffney, S.C., Markie Bellew, arrested for assault & battery, escaped from the county jail, hiked 20 miles to Spartanburg, returned next day with a bondsman who bailed...
With that, the President was off to Washington to wrestle with a century's worth of fast-changing foreign-relations problems. All in all, the U.S. would be the better for his trip, for Eisenhower could now act with the confidence that the sources of his strength were not only still there, but multiplied...
...Because he finished his lessons ahead of everyone else and then got into trouble, the teacher loaded him with chores-washing the blackboard, bringing in wood and water. After he finished high school with high marks at 15, he seemed to lose interest in education. He took a wild trip to California with five other rangy young Texans, worked as a hasher and an elevator operator there, then hitchhiked home to take a tractor-driving job. All this distressed his mother. Lyndon Johnson still remembers the late Sunday morning after a full Saturday night when...
Tied Hands & Feet. He took a trip around the world, telling anyone who would listen of the injustices suffered by Cambodia under the French colonial system. Said he in Manhattan: "In economic matters they have our hands and feet tied; we cannot import and export freely and we have no freedom of taxation. Our police cannot touch them." The French insist on taking Cambodian troops under their command, said Norodom, and he warned: "If we have an invasion of the sort that Laos has suffered recently, I am not at all certain that I can call for a general mobilization...