Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...June with our wives and several members of our staffs. As a youngster I used to dig in the sand on the beaches of Lake Michigan. If I dug deep enough, my mother told me, I'd wind up in China. Now I was actually going to make the trip...
...ANGELES--Former President Richard M. Nixon yesterday left on his third trip to China without his wife and the fanfare that accompanies him on previous trips. The Chinese government extended an invitation to Nixon 18 months ago, but the normalization of relations between the United States and China delayed the trip...
Overwhelmed, Mondale declared he had undergone "one of the most moving experiences of my public life." In Canton the Vice President formally opened a new consulate, the first in 30 years. For him and other Americans on the trip, it did indeed seem that U.S.-Chinese relations had crossed the invisible psychological boundary that separates cautious first acquaintance and confident friendship. Had China become an unofficial U.S. ally? "Not exactly," said a U.S. official traveling with Mondale. "But we're at the point where we are considering each other's interests as we pursue our separate policies." Policy...
...York City's Central Park in order to dramatize, according to Mrs. Abzug, the fact "that while President Carter was showboating on the Mississippi, Americans were left up the creek in the fight against rising prices." To itemize that metaphor, the two sailors paid only $3 for their trip, while the presidential excursion cost several thousand. The pair also launched a new political organization called Women U.S.A. and urged their sisters across the land to ship their household bills, once paid, to Congress as a protest. Somehow, however, the ladies of the lake look becalmed...
Smith was granted immunity from treason charges so he could make the trip to England. He could have been prosecuted for his role in the Rhodesian independence movement...