Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vice President Nixon started off on his cold-war journey to the U.S.S.R., the Administration harbored doubts as to whether the trip could really be expected to accomplish very much-and Dick Nixon shared them. Nixon expected Soviet chieftains to be cool and suspicious. feared that Nikita Khrushchev might try to snub him and keep him away from the Russian people. But by the time Nixon headed back to Washington this week, there were no doubts at all that the trip was a diplomatic and sociological success far beyond what anybody could have hoped or imagined. During his improbable fortnight...
Whatever the long-range results of the handshaking, the oratorical sparring, the wide-ranging travels, it seemed likely that the first, short-range result would be a trip by Nikita Khrushchev to the U.S. "On balance," said Nixon in a press conference just before leaving Moscow for Warsaw, "I believe that some time Mr. Khrushchev should be invited to come to the U.S." Khrushchev, he said, "still has some very real misconceptions regarding both our policy and the attitude of our people. A trip would serve to reduce and to remove these misconceptions...
Next to the impact of the Nixon trip on U.S.-Soviet relations, the hottest topic of Washington talk last week was the impact of the Nixon trip on U.S. 1960 presidential politics. And whether they were glad or sad about it, the politicos agreed that Richard Nixon's performance had trimmed his bright prospects in glowing red neon...
...President's committment was made before the announcement of his trip to the U.S.S.R., and has not been reconfirmed since. Dag Hammarskjold, Secretary-General of the United Nations, will also attend the opening...
...longer speeches, however, trip him up. He fails to convey all the sense, the rhythm, and the grandeur. He has not yet wholly mastered the difficult art of breathing properly, so that he often pauses at the end of a line when the thought demands that he go right on to the next...