Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nakasone calls the American President "Ron," and Reagan calls the Japanese leader "Yasu." Thus Nakasone last week hoped to get a sympathetic welcome when he arrived in Washington for talks with Reagan aimed at defusing tense trade troubles between the two countries. Nakasone fully understood the importance of the trip, which he grandly described as the "most important journey ever made to Washington by a Japanese Prime Minister." As he jetted toward Washington, the Prime Minister read a book about Prince Fumimaro Konoe, Japan's pre-World War II leader. At one point he put the book down and mused...
...they were attending classes at a seaside resort: men in shorts or jeans and running shoes, women in white or pastel-colored blouses and slacks. They stroll hand in hand with bookbags over their shoulders, loll on the steps of lecture halls, hop into their cars for a trip to one of the 47 restaurants catering to Maties, the nickname for U. of S. students that had its origin in the tomato-color blazers students used to wear. The Maties have long been politically apathetic. In 1986 Jannie Gagiano, a lecturer in political science, carried out studies on student attitudes...
Although the Wildcats' zone defense forced the Crimson into several poor shots, Kleinfelder said that, in the end, it was her own squad's youth and lack of confidence that stood in the way of a trip to today's finals...
...book is not a novel and is best read as a semi-fictionalized case study--though one made all the more intriguing by the author's self-conscious narration. Schumer's language is brisk and informative, and she successfully avoids turning sentiment into a soppy trip down memory lane. And a decade later, the reader gets the impression that the characters are ready to put it all behind them. "I never wanted to see [them] again....[a]ll those goblins of growing up--fear, envy, insecurity and sloth," Schumer writes after a return to her freshman room. "And all that...
...trip from Boston to New York can now take more than four hours by plane, door-to-door. An hour to the airport, a half-hour waiting in line to check baggage, an hour in flight, a half-hour waiting for your bags, and an hour cab ride from Laguardia to Manhattan. Driving from Cabot House to the Upper West Side only takes three-and-a-half hours...