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Word: tripped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think we may take our lumps," Fish said with a grin this week. "We learned a lot on the southern trip (2-3 finish), and the guys have shown a willingness to work very hard on the areas that need improvement, but unless we get better we're gonna get smoked...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Crimson Netmen Begin Race for League Crown | 4/7/1978 | See Source »

...second two sections of the book record the changes, spiritual and material, that Tamsen undergoes. While the trip begins as a metaphoric uniting of the continent, comparable to Tamsen's second marriage to George Donner--"and I who started/a thousand miles before/feel in my flesh/the stretch of the land/as we give it birth"--it unfolds as a series of losses, of partings. "Now hesitant among the mountains/we pass across the invisible boundary/that divides self from self..." The last and most painful parting for Tamsen, is her husband's death. She therefore chooses to die in the mountains, with...

Author: By Harte Weiner, | Title: Death and Rebirth | 4/7/1978 | See Source »

Whitman became interested in pioneer life through a larger interest in mortality and survival. She chose Tamsen Donner partly because of their similarities: both poets, teachers and married more than once. Through reading numerous accounts of the Donner party trip, and by traveling the route herself, Whitman hoped to get inside her persona...

Author: By Harte Weiner, | Title: Death and Rebirth | 4/7/1978 | See Source »

...this game," coach Bob Scalise said after the contest. "We had some close, tough contests on the trip, and it helps to know that when we come up against a New England opponent, we can just blow...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Laxmen Skewer Tritons, 27-2 | 4/5/1978 | See Source »

...Hoboken, both in New Jersey. Do not ask me why anyone of sound mind and body would leave Princeton only to go to Hoboken. Neither is one of your basic Top Ten U.S. Cities. In any case, she was from Creighton College, Neb., and she was on her first trip east, to see New York City with friends. She'd been born in Wyoming--down-home, God-fearing Wyoming--and it was only a matter of time before the rural Fundamentalist began discussing religion with me, your basic, run-of-the-mill New York liberal Jewish atheist...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: So Where Did You Go Over Vacation? | 4/5/1978 | See Source »

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