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Word: tripped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shaak wrote her master's thesis on the way children's books deal with death. She discovered a "grandfather's gone on a long trip" evasiveness. Her charges read books like A Taste of Blackberries, in which a child dies of bee stings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Florida: A Life and Death Class | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...fancy is stretched to imagine life's last event by every device of art, by every technique of simulation. Yet finally nothing will do but to meet death face to face. It is time for the ultimate field trip. Station wagons and minibuses piloted by volunteer mothers head out for the Williams-Thomas Funeral Home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Florida: A Life and Death Class | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...4/7/87--Sheik Ali Fayadh Mahim was arrested in Beverly Hills today for trying to pass a bad emerald at Gucci's.") China, racked by hard rock, LSD and "un-Confucian sexual attitudes" among its youth, places none other than Richard Nixon at the helm in order to crush "The Great Trip Forward" with "The Great Clamp Downward: And tension persists in that area of the world: "4/4/83--In pre-emptive strikes on Hanoi ammo dumps, the Chinese dropped an estimated 40,000 tons of people on Vietnamese bombs...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: Great Expectations | 12/1/1979 | See Source »

...eight wrestlers making the trip can expect to see plenty of tough competition from the field of 16 schools. This is a prime opportunity for the three outstanding frosh who appear to have earned their spots on the varsity to hone their skills before the dual meets get underway...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, | Title: Talented Wrestling Squad Scrambles to Fill Gaps | 11/30/1979 | See Source »

...become very interested in magic, and we're very serious about this trip. We're hoping to see this magician who practices both white and black magic. He has a very long and difficult name which we can't pronounce. We call him Banana for short...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Stoned Wheat Thins | 11/29/1979 | See Source »

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