Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent article, "Disobedience a la Thoreau: The Case of Gus Yates," and the letter published March 6 entitled "Selfishness," miss the point of Gus Yates' recent ascent of Mt. Katahdin. Mr. Yates did not set out to endanger the life of anyone. In fact, on my many outdoor trips with Mr. Yates I have been extremely impressed with his concern for the safety of the trip members and the preservation of the environment. He is, however, a very individualistic and independent person...
...trip to nationals will be Greacen's fourth in four years. He and Harvard's seven swimming qualifiers will travel to Cleveland State University for the competition March...
Officially still undecided about challenging Jimmy Carter for the Democratic presidential nomination, Brown made it perfectly clear that he is already running hard. As he set off on a six-day campaign-testing trip to Washington, New York and Detroit, he sat among the commoners at the rear of the tourist section on TWA's Flight 890, alternately signing autographs for fellow passengers and consulting a thick red briefing book entitled "Economics of a Balanced Federal Budget." His goal, he said, was "to launch a national debate on amending the Constitution to balance the federal budget...
...Viet Nam. In Soviet eyes, Carter's disapproval must have seemed too mild in the midst of the exciting new Chinese-American embrace. Moreover, Washington's current assurances that Sino-American normalization will continue despite the invasion, and Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal's unperturbed trip to Peking, where he discussed most-favored-nation status for China, were not lost on Moscow. Those gestures could hardly be expected to change the Soviet view that the U.S. had "at least indirectly encouraged the invasion." Even some U.S. officials privately agreed with critics of American policy that the Chinese...
...Chinese, a high point of Blumenthal's trip was his speech at the opening banquet in Peking's Great Hall of the People. To their surprise, the Treasury Secretary began with seven sentences of Chinese before saying, also in Chinese: "Now allow me please to continue in English." At the end he offered a six-sentence toast in Chinese, concluding with the traditional Chinese equivalent of bottoms up, kan-pei. Chinese officials were clearly honored. It was, they said, the first time in memory that a foreign dignitary had used their language in a speech...