Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...funny." A boy earnestly explains: "Sometimes you are too scared to tell your friends. You might be ashamed." "Ashamed?" a counselor asks. A girl called Flora (the names of students are fictitious) stares at the floor and says, "Sometimes they say they are just going on a trip. I was upset. They lied." The point of this support group, the real usefulness of a school's becoming involved, is made clear when the counselor asks if there are any adults the kids feel they can talk to. He is answered by silence...
...Achziv, Ashdod and Ashkelon passed Ismailia, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, in an admiral's white summer dress uniform, stood on the balcony of his holiday villa to salute them. Coming as it did only days after Israel returned the Sinai town of El Arish to Egyptian authority, the trip symbolized the determination of the two ancient enemies to make their peace treaty work...
West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who will deliver the afternoon commencement address, arrived at Harvard late last night, surrounded by secret service and area policemen, after a short trip to Washington D.C. and the University of South Carolina...
When the Harvard hoopsters embarked on their Western trip at Christmas, the team was riding a high, coming off some good early-season contests and a strong showing against Boston College in Boston Garden. When they returned, entrenched in the depths of a miserable slump, coach Frank McLaughlin said his squad was "fatigued...
...punished its victims and offered no relief to the perpetrator. Everything was contagious, cancer as common as a cold, plague the quotidian. There was stomachache, headache, toothache, earache. There was angina and indigestion and painful third-degree burning itch. Nerves like a hideous body hair grew long enough to trip over and lay raw and exposed as live wires or shoelaces that had come undone...