Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Acapulco's airport, rustled in the color riot of tropical vegetation, in the rugged beauty of the cliff-crowned bay, the shiny glamour of the hotels, the cheers of the people, and in the friendliness of the President, Adolfo López Mateos. President Eisenhower's trip, occasioned by his desire to demonstrate the U.S.'s deep respect for Latin American solidarity, was, in fact, a cheery and most productive political journey...
...carnations, the 10-mile drive to Ike's hotel, the Pierre Marques, was choked with thousands of Mexicans who rimmed the freshly whitewashed curbs, waved signs and photos and shouted greetings. Thousands more awaited Ike in the town itself when he later left his hotel for the trip to the Municipal Palace. Even on the local golf course, action stopped as Ike rode by. A sign proclaimed...
Despite two critical holes in its line-up, the varsity swimming team should defeat Columbia with no real difficulty when the two square off this afternoon in New York. By doctors' orders, both John Hammond and Bruce Hunter will not make the trip; Hammond still has sinus trouble and Hunter has come down with a bad cold...
...sudden Dartmouth success-aided in no small measure by a trip to Minnesota over Christmas--may stimulate the varsity to a top performance tonight in its most important game of the year. As field-Marshal Montgomery said of an underdog, but victorious Dartmouth rugby team in England, "Makes us sit up, you know, keeps us from getting too complacent...
...Ward Beecher. Active as a Republican, he was elected to the Massachusetts legislature in 1930, became its speaker in 1939, and in 1942 was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. Named chairman of a Select House Committee on Foreign Aid, he led his committee abroad on a survey trip, laid much of the groundwork for the Marshall Plan legislation. So strict were Herter's rules that once, when the committee was traveling abroad, a sign appeared in the Queen Mary's lecture room: "Here sat the Committee on Foreign Aid/And worked like hell while the others played...