Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...raids. So the workers drew lots once a week to pick the five who would have to be shipped back to the Mexican border. Before the five victims left, though, the hat was passed for funds to help the unlucky five sneak back north across the border, a trip that usually started the next...
...from the other hostages took place in a dramatic on-camera television scene that was carried to the U.S. by satellite. It happened on Saturday morning in the schoolyard near the Beirut airport, where the hostages and their luggage were assembled for what was expected to be an imminent trip to Damascus. It looked like a rather shaggy adult-education class being called to order, except for the gun-toting Amal guards watching from rooftops. In his now familiar crisp tones, Allyn Conwell called out the names of his 38 fellow American hostages, only 31 of whom answered "here...
Later the hotel chefs produced a cake with white-chocolate icing. On it in thin dark chocolate lettering: WISHING YOU ALL A HAPPY TRIP HOME...
...stronger, or at least more visible, among Hispanics. For one thing, their sheer numbers enable Hispanics to colonize bigger chunks of bigger cities than previous waves of immigrants could. Perhaps more important, coming from countries that can be reached by an inexpensive plane ride or even a short foot trip across the Mexican border, many Hispanics have thought of themselves as being in the U.S. only long enough to earn a little money. Most, of course, eventually change their minds as they come to realize that jobs in their home countries still pay next to nothing when available...
...Beattie's third novel is set in Vermont, which seems to most of her characters only a short ego trip away from Manhattan and Los Angeles. The new publisher of Country Daze, a Perrier-and-lime sort of publication, remarks: "I discriminate enough to know who means most to me. I mean most to me." So, apparently, does everyone else. Lucy Spenser, who writes a Miss Lonelyhearts column for the magazine under the pen name Cindi Coeur, is having a sporadic affair with her editor Hildon and trying to figure out why her old friend Les dumped her. Lucy...