Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Monday morning. Congressman and former Buffalo Bills Quarterback Jack Kemp, for one, swore he could make it back to Washington aboard a "red- eye" airline flight. ABC News and Sports Chief Roone Arledge, overseeing his network's first Super Bowl telecast, lined up a corporate jet for an overnight trip to Washington, where he planned to direct the network's Inauguration coverage...
...strife-torn territory--and an antidote to criticism at home. French President Francois Mitterrand last week made a sudden visit to the French Pacific-island territory of New Caledonia, where at least 18 people have been killed since November in an increasingly bitter struggle over independence. After announcing the trip in a nationally televised interview, Mitterrand said he was going to the troubled territory to "express what I believe to be reason" and to show support for French Special Envoy Edgard Pisani, author of a controversial independence plan for the islands...
...week's end New Caledonians were enjoying an uneasy peace. The nightly curfew had been pushed back from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. In Noumea, restaurants and hotels were virtually empty. Before boarding his plane for the 12,000-mile trip back to Paris, Mitterrand spoke optimistically of his twelve-hour visit. "The threads which were feared to have been cut are tied again," he said. "The dialogue continues...
Instead, Harvard will practice until next week, when it'll take off on its longest road trip of the year...
...Franklin Roosevelt plunged the nation billions of dollars into debt to ease the Depression and fight World War II. Concern about paying the bills was one of his lesser burdens. It took John Kennedy only a few minutes to decide he could find $40 billion to finance a trip to the moon. Lyndon Johnson's exultation that we could have "guns and butter" was true, though he mismanaged the account...