Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...volunteered to give up his regular passport as well. He says he agreed to permit the FBI to search his car and apartment without a warrant and even reminded the agents to check the cellar storage space. But when Bloch and his wife Lou returned from a trip to New York City, they found a valuable chandelier cracked, the windows open and the air conditioning running. They submitted a bill to the FBI. To Bloch's great irritation, the FBI also confiscated his private papers and only belatedly returned a checkbook, with just three blank checks, so he could...
...plan was delayed first by objections from the German generals, then by bad weather, then by a bizarre twist of fortune. A Luftwaffe major who carried a set of the invasion plans in his briefcase was sitting in an officers club in Munster and bemoaning the long train trip to a planning conference in Cologne the next day; another major, who was getting too old for active duty, offered to fly him there so that he could log some more cockpit time for himself. The two set off in a new Messerschmitt scout plane, got lost in the clouds...
When Continental Airlines set off a round of deep discounts on Aug. 1, rival carriers hoped the price cutting would end by autumn. But last week Trans World Airlines launched the fiercest fare war in more than two years by slashing its lowest rates on round-trip fall tickets. A typical reduction would cut the cheapest Chicago-San Francisco fare from $323 to $198. The heavily restricted discounts apply to tickets purchased by Sept. 1 for U.S. flights from Sept. 9 to Dec. 15. Other airlines quickly matched the cut-rate fares. Eastern, struggling to return to the air despite...
...part because he was hard not to like, and he would not give up. The dashiki he wore in the Texas legislature gave way to Armani suits, the clenched fist to working within the system. After persuading New Jersey Republican Congresswoman Margaret Roukema to join him on a trip to Africa in 1984, Leland got in to see Ronald Reagan, who then agreed to support more foreign food aid and order ships loaded with grain to head for Ethiopia. Leland leaves his wife Alison, who is two months pregnant, a son -- and a world less hungry than it would have...
Clancy has been at loose ends since he came down from the adrenaline rush of completing Danger (he wrote the final 45 manuscript pages in a single day to meet his May 1 deadline). His self-reward was a cross-country train trip with wife Wanda and their four children (the youngest is a three-year-old daughter), plus Rodgers and his wife. Clancy, who shares his hero Ryan's aversion to flying, rented an entire Amtrak parlor car for the trip...