Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Continent repercussions were even more violent. Macmillan's misadventure, said Rome's Il Messaggero, proved that "it is impossible to come to an understanding with Soviet leaders of Khrushchev's type." The Adenauer and De Gaulle governments, leary about the trip in the first place, were distressed by the harshness of Khrushchev's action...
...Minister and Field Marshal Henrique Baptista Duffles Teixeira Lott, only other visible candidate. This week, with typical political canniness, Quadros planned to board a freighter to Japan (54 days around the Cape of Good Hope) on a trip that will keep him away for three months-enough to avoid excessive pre-election exposure, enough to guarantee him a triumphal welcome when he returns...
...benefit ball in Athens. Greece's perkily pretty Queen Frederilca and towering King Paul shared a turn about the floor and a moment of royal amusement. Later, Her Majesty gave a club group a few homey recollections of last fall's U.S. trip. Sample: when the Queen asked to see the launching of a moon rocket she was told that the request posed difficulties because future visitors might use it as a precedent. "Why don't you," suggested Frederika helpfully, "make a rule that only queens and upwards...
...third period goals by the brilliant Bob Marquis upset the Crimson's finest effort since the Clarkson-St. Lawrence trip, as Boston University edged the Varsity, 3 to 2, at Watson Rink last night...
When Chance decides to lend Macgrady his passport (Macgrady's own is held by the syndicate) for a trip to London for medical help, the doctor and Anna are held as hostages. Not since Faulkner's Temple Drake was held captive in a Memphis brothel has a novelist contrived such powerful scenes of terror. While the key gangster gives Chance a going over, the Arabs begin to riot in the town. Buildings are bombed, the gangster's house is attacked by the mob; and while Chance fights his love for Anna and takes his physical beating...