Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Colonel North used that $4,000 like it was his personal piggy bank" to buy groceries, tires and take his family on a trip," Keker said...
Kaye opened with a 3-1 victory over Trip Navaro, the number-one player from Tufts. But in his second-round match, he dropped a 3-1 decision to Ollie Khan of Atlanta...
...effort to patch together a political future for the Moscow-backed regime of Afghan President Najibullah, Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze made a quick trip to Islamabad, where he conferred with Pakistan's leaders. But this attempt to cloak the embarrassed retreat with some diplomatic fig leaves failed, surprising few Soviet citizens, who have long since made up their minds about the misdirected war effort. "It was a noble cause," said a returning soldier last week, "and a mistake." Moscow's task will be to resurrect dignity from the rubble of a bitter defeat that cost 15,000 Soviet lives...
Kitty tried to put together a new life, signing a $175,000 book contract and registering with a speakers' bureau. She also traveled, taking a trip to an Arizona spa. And apparently she drank. Enough to alarm her family and, most important, herself. Doctors do not believe she has had the time to become heavily dependent on alcohol, but they say her earlier experience with amphetamines evidently set off warning bells. "She recognized that her recovery was a day-to-day thing, and she is an addictive person," says Paul Costello, her press secretary during the campaign. She has struggled...
...established themselves on the prime-time schedule. To be sure, both of them -- CBS's Tour of Duty and ABC's China Beach -- add plenty of TV fabric softener to the abrasive material. Each fills its sound track with '60s pop songs, as if Viet Nam were just another trip down nostalgia lane, like high school mixers and afternoons at the malt shop. Both have taken a predominantly male experience and leavened it with female characters and soap-opera story lines closer to Dallas than Saigon...