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Word: tripped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nationals: The national tournament will be held in Annapolis, Md. this year. If Harvard wins the Eastern tournament, it will make the trip to Navy just before final exams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Women's Water Polo Alphabet | 4/29/1988 | See Source »

...most American children of the past half-century, a Disney cartoon feature was the sacred destination of their first trip to the movies. Disney taught kids what a film could be -- how it could blend sight and sound into enthralling art, how it could salve your soul and scare you to tears. Alone in the dark, awed by images bigger and bolder than any dream, children shuddered through a skein of traumas that Walt had devised for them: the outrage of kidnaping (Pinocchio), the ridicule of deformity (Dumbo), the death of a mother (Bambi). Long before the '80s scourge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holding Their Banner High | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

...young Seminole men in black tuxedos who direct them to the ticket windows. There they buy bingo packets costing from $79 to $289. They may win cash prizes ranging from a few dollars to $125,000, or a new Lincoln Town Car, or a beach-front condominium, or a trip to Las Vegas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Florida: Filling the Hours with Bingo ! | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

...trip was President Corazon Aquino's first outside the Philippines in almost a year and a half, and it was clearly a respite from troubles at home. There, rumors swirled of another coup attempt by Colonel Gregorio ("Gringo") Honasan. Though police last week arrested eight fugitive guards who had escaped with him from a prison ship two weeks earlier, Honasan remained at large. In her absence, Aquino named a military-dominated committee to run the government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: Chinese Homecoming | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

Once the Dins had promoted the idea, by postering and word-of-mouth, Piedmont actually offered to donate a few round-trip tickets and t-shirts to the cause. But self-styled Stuff Manager Bruce Condit and the others decided that "crap for everyone was better than a few good doorprizes...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Packer, | Title: Free for All | 4/22/1988 | See Source »

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