Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...home. The cosmonauts had just completed a six-day mission in which they performed routine experiments with the two Mir cosmonauts, who are spending a year in space. Lyakhov, 47, and Mohmand, 29, an Afghan pilot, had returned to the two-stage Soyuz capsule for the three-hour trip back to the Soviet Union, leaving Physician Valeri Polyakov behind to continue monitoring the health of the station crew...
...looking for some magical freshmen to come to our organizational meeting on Monday [at Dillon Field House] and turn this program around," Hopkins said. "We're not only looking for people to play in the fall, but also for the golfers who will join us on the spring trip next March...
Fourteen lettermen--including nine starters--return from the 1987 squad (14-1-3) that finished with an undefeated regular-season record, an Ivy League title, a New England championship and a trip to the NCAA Final Four...
...harmony -- and money -- were the watchwords in Beijing last week when Asia's economic superpower, Japan, came courting. Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita spent six days in China trying to make amends for a recent history of bilateral irritations by passing out generous loans, grants and credits. His trip was judged a solid success...
Chinese government officials referred to the Takeshita trip as a "second normalization of relations" between the two countries. Takeshita labeled his visit a "new starting point" in Sino-Japanese affairs. This blossoming of good feeling ends, for the moment at least, a period of bickering between the Asian powers that dates back to 1986. The fractiousness was spurred by several issues, ranging from a new Japanese history text that glossed over Tokyo's atrocities in China before and during World War II to former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone's controversial 1987 visit to Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, a memorial...