Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little rumpled and sniffling from a cold caught somewhere between Athens and Rome, U.S. Deputy Under Secretary of State Robert Daniel Murphy eased his 6 ft. 2 in. gratefully into a seat in Columbine III. Turning to his traveling companion, Murphy began talking quietly, steadily of the historic trip just ending; rushed to the Middle East 29 days before, Murphy had traveled 18,575 miles, visited nine Middle East and European nations, in Lebanon alone met 45 times with government and rebel leaders. When Diplomat Murphy finished talking, his friend on the Columbine leaned toward him. "Bob," said the President...
...that time?" Replied Witness Starrett: "He said to get out-and he speaks very colorfully." Question: "Did Zapas say anything about killing him?" Answer: "Yes, but he used that expression like I would say 'Hello.' " After talking to Zapas, Probstein went to St. Louis on a "business trip." He has not been seen since...
When Shotputters Galina Zybina and Tamara Tyshkevich, miffed at losing the U.S.S.R. championship to a comparative newcomer, refused to accept their second-and third-prize medals by her side, they were stripped of their right ever to receive the medals, and the elder Zybina was barred from the trip to Stockholm (TIME, Aug. 18). Also barred was Nina Ponoma-reva, the hefty discus thrower who was caught shoplifting in London two years ago. A sort of Maria Callas in a track suit, Nina had made her outbursts of temperament famous. She was accused of being "egotistical and uncomradely." All this...
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan touched all the bases-Greece, Turkey, Cyprus*-in his spur-of-the-moment trip to the Mediterranean. Back at 10 Downing Street last week, he swiftly announced that he was going ahead with a "modified" plan for Cyprus...
...should have tried to be a missionary, like Albert Schweitzer. Some of television's unseen but much-heard word merchants think he would have made a fine gag writer. Walter Winchell plainly thinks he should have been put into an ablative nose cone on a one-way rocket trip to the moon. Sponsors of late movies think he should have stayed in daytime television, and all across the land, people who like to go to sleep early think he should have stood in bed - and given them a chance...