Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Between a cagey, determined peasantry on one side and the knowledge that Nikita Khrushchev must think this is a poor way to run a socialist country, Gomulka must do a delicate dance. Just before his Moscow trip last fall, he proclaimed that renewed collectivization "is inevitable." Immediately, private farmers began slaughtering livestock to avoid being forced to turn it over to the state. They sold so many calves on the open market that Poland, glutted with meat in 1958, faces a meat shortage...
...seat beside the plane door. The stewardess noted that he watched carefully how she bolted the door, but thought nothing of it. After the takeoff. Emoto, clearly restless, went three times to the plane's toilet, each time taking a blue canvas bag with him. After the third trip, Emoto returned to his seat still carrying his bag. He looked ill and asked for a glass of water. Returning with it, the stewardess was just in time to see Emoto vanish out the plane door, to fall 2,300 ft. into the Inland...
...casinos in several big resort hotels in a deal with Batista, caught a chartered plane to Florida with a clutch of his top mobsters. Wherever the Batista supporters descended in the U.S., Cuban exiles turned out to hoot and jeer. Other exiles hired planes for the happy trip back home...
Since then, the Suttons, Sand and their Colaborers have drilled a 125-ft. well, installed a gasoline power generator, raised 63 sturdy cabins and a schoolhouse-church. They have built a bridge and spur road to short-cut the trip to the Paraná River, are starting another school, a separate church, and several more frame houses for the Colaborer families soon to follow. They hold Sunday and evening services for hundreds of Brazilians, show film strips, pass out Portuguese-language Bibles and prayer books. George Sutton, 35, has trimmed off 35 lbs., put calluses on his hands lugging buckets...
...their gods from Africa, and many of them changed in their new country: among the Nagôs, Yemanjá was a river goddess who became a sea goddess on the journey across the water; Calunga, the Bantu sea god, became the god of death during the slave ship trip to Brazil. The spirit deities also merged with Catholic theology: Oxala is both the Lord of Creation and Christ, Yemanjá is also Our Lady of Glory, Xango-Agodo, god of medicine, is also St. John the Baptist, and Ogun, the war god, is also St. George...