Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite their hopes for Sadat's success, the Saudis bluntly turned down an Egyptian plea to bless his proposed Cairo summit publicly. One reason: despite some earlier evidence to the contrary, Saudi officials insist that they were not consulted beforehand about Sadat's trip to Jerusalem. After all, a Jeddah businessman observed, "before going into a major venture you should always consult your banker." Sadat kept quiet and simply gambled that his credit would still be good...
...Arab world. They now are in a position to influence such disparate and often inimical regimes as Marxist South Yemen and Somalia, Algeria and Morocco, the Christian Lebanese and the P.L.O. The Saudis hope eventually to be the effective mediator in healing the deep rift Sadat's trip has caused in the Arab world. Said Saudi Information Minister Muhammed Abdo Yamani last week: "We are trying to cool everyone down; Sadat's trip was a gesture made to ease Israel's enmity towards us, and it should not create enmity among the Arabs...
Meanwhile, California's no-frills Governor climbed aboard Freddie Laker's no-frills, $135 flight to London. "I'm paying for it myself," explained Jerry Brown. The reason for his trip: to attend a memorial service at Westminster Cathedral for his old friend E.F. Schumacher, author of Small Is Beautiful. The underground bestseller, which argues for a new kind of technology on a smaller, more human scale, greatly influenced Brown's "Less is more" theories of government. During his 48-hour stay, Mr. Austerity dined with Prince Charles and paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister...
Rosovsky didn't have much to say about his Tuesday trip to Washington for an interview with the Yale Corporation. Neither did the Yale Corporation, which is trying to conduct its search for a replacement for Yale's flashy former president, Kingman Brewster, in complete secrecy...
...slopes. My father would become very angry at anyone who had the nerve to warn him that his or her boots were probably three sizes too small. Of course, there are absolutely no places to buy ski boots on Christmas. So the slip-up would invariably mean a quick trip to the local ski outfitting shop the next morning, meaning we'd be off to a late start, meaning...