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Word: tripping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Everyone in the whole bohemian preppie stoner set, who do the reggae Deadhead-tie-dye-long-hair-down-to-earth trip while they're here and then go to deb balls and work on Wall Street when they leave...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: A Remedy for the Harvard Sickness | 3/24/1989 | See Source »

Another common problem can develop when passengers lock themselves in the restroom and refuse to come out. When this happens, the passenger is usually a small child who wants attention. You should cajole the child out by offering him candy or a trip to the cockpit. If this fails, threaten to force-feed him six bags of complimentary peanuts...

Author: By Neil A. Cooper, | Title: Flying Frank's Friendly Airline | 3/23/1989 | See Source »

Those words form a familiar refrain for everyone who has ever tried to get away from Harvard on the Boston subway system. All four lines--Red, Blue, Green and Orange--run directly through the center of Boston. Even as simple a trip as traveling from one side Cambridge to another requires a lengthy detour the inevitable Park St. stop...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: 'T' Line Could Reshape City | 3/21/1989 | See Source »

...19th century hero of this seafaring novel finally completes a laborious journey from England to New South Wales. In transit, Edmund Talbot grows weary of "this seemingly endless voyage"; safely ashore at Sydney Cove, he marvels that he has been at sea for nearly a year. In fact, the trip has taken much longer than that. William Golding first shoved Talbot off dry land in Rites of Passage (1980), which went on to win the Booker Prize, Britain's most coveted award for fiction. After receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983, the author got back to Talbot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Long Haul | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

This season will feature a field trip the weekend after spring break, as the team travels to New York and Philadelphia for games against Columbia and Pennsylvania. The club also hopes to play MIT, Babson, and Princeton...

Author: By Christopher M. Thorne | Title: No Mystery | 3/18/1989 | See Source »

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