Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jimmy Carter set out aboard Air Force One for Caracas last week, aides passed out a two-page memo to the 170 reporters who accompanied him aboard two chartered planes. Entitled "Health Advisory for Presidential Trip," the document warned them about dread diseases, from dysentery to yellow fever, that they might encounter on the seven-day, 15,000-mile journey to four countries. The statement also cautioned them about "treacherous, steep drop-offs" on the road between Caracas and the airport, the undertow off Rio de Janeiro's beaches, bad drinking water in Nigeria and poisonous mamba snakes...
...catalogue of horrors provided a bit of drama for what was surely one of the least exciting presidential trips abroad in memory. In fact, according to senior aides, Carter would have preferred to stay home but for his promise last year to visit South America and Africa. Said an assistant: "The word we got from Brazil was that they would feel insulted if we canceled the trip...
Stacy feels nauseated when she wakes up that Saturday morning, but she knows she has to make the trip. The week before, she went to the clinic, but she ran away. "I was just sitting there thinking, 'Should I or shouldn't I?' " she recalls. "But I got scared looking at all those machines...
...high school senior in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn. Now she pulls on blue jeans, a sports shirt, and ties her curly hair back with a scarf. She wears a tiny teardrop ring to show that she is engaged, but her fiance is not making this trip. Stacy and her mother set out on the 45-minute subway ride from their home to the Eastern Women's Center clinic on Manhattan's East 60th Street. They do not speak to each other on the crowded train. That whole week, for that matter, they have spoken little about...
...first trip to the clinic a nurse "started lecturing me on how much it costs to raise a baby," Stacy recalls. "She sounded just like a mother." This time there are no long discussions. Stacy is called in for "the procedure," during which "the tissue" will be removed. Most women choose to be put to sleep with an intravenous injection of Brevital. "They have your legs just like you're going to have a baby," says Stacy...