Word: tripper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boston Coast Guard Friday, which was cancelled after the sailors had been given special leaves, an inter-squad contest was held. The "A" team drubbed the "B" squad 10 to 1 behind the three hit pitching of Jack Wallace. "Lefty" Knowies gave up eight bingles including a round tripper by Mal Allen in the third inning with...
Herbert Clark Hoover, fishing tripper, and the Duke of Windsor, his luncheon host in the Duke's Bahaman bailiwick, forthrightly, erectly double-breasted the news camera...
...specialized training of soldiers, is widely expanding its Far Eastern research, is playing a major role in bringing the U.S. into a global educational setup. For two weeks every month Paul Hanna leaves his wife and children and a Palo Alto hilltop which in peacetime was a tripper's cynosure: a redwood, cement and sheet-glass honeycomb architectured by Frank Lloyd Wright...
...unrevealed causes; in Alaska. He served with the British as a captain in World War I, transferred in 1918 to the U.S. artillery in France. After the war he entered shipping, in spite of many hunting trips in Asia rose to vice president of International Mercantile Marine. A frequent tripper to England, he looked more English than the English in his British Army uniform in World War II, changed it temporarily for that of a Finnish colonel in command of international volunteers. Plagued by dysentery in Egypt, he resigned his British rank of major in 1941, next year accepted...
Moscow to Cairo. But Tripper Churchill was not yet ready to go home. From second-front talks with Stalin he apparently returned once more to North Africa, where a United Nations' second front may be opened. He may even have made side trips from there. Not until eight days after the announcement that he had left Moscow did the British officially announce that Churchill was home. Just where he had been all the time was a military secret for the moment. But it was no secret that he had seen everything and everybody of importance in Egypt...