Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another booster was the team's trip to France in March, LaRaja says: "It was a real confidence-builder. We played well and got to see top-notch teams...
...body of the boy who had been drowned." The story that follows, however, is not about this death but rather its effect on the girl who tells it. She grows up, marries, moves from Ontario to Vancouver, has two children. While driving across the northern U.S. on a trip back home, she and her husband stop at a municipal swimming pool in Montana so their daughters can briefly escape the midday heat. The younger one almost drowns, and this frightening moment triggers a rush of memories in the mother, including the one that begins the story. As a child...
...balmy Sunday evening, and General Augusto Pinochet was making the 23-mile trip back to the capital, Santiago, from his weekend retreat at El Melocoton, accompanied by his ten-year-old grandson. The President's armor- plated Mercedes was the fourth in a five-car caravan. Suddenly, an oncoming car pulling a small camping trailer swerved across the road, blocking the presidential motorcade. "Intense firing began," Pinochet later recalled, "with machine guns, rifles and bazookas or possibly rocket launchers and some hand grenades." The barrage, which came both from the trailer and the surrounding hillsides, cut down the two motorcycle...
...threatened to block new multilateral loans to Chile. This time, the regime will have to consider what impact the state of siege may have on Pope John Paul II's planned visit in April. In predominantly Roman Catholic Chile, where even many Marxists declare themselves Christians, the papal trip is anticipated with uncommon fervor. But the Vatican has let it be known that a state of siege would not be an appropriate atmosphere for a papal visit...
...have been attracted to the limelight, wanting some fame to go with his fortune. Says one CBS board source: "He is trying to give himself a new dimension." Cousin Elizabeth Drew disputes that view. Says she: "He is utterly secure. He is not doing this for an ego trip. He doesn't need the publicity or seek it, but he knows that it comes with the territory...