Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...found himself on an expressway covered with what seemed like "a million cars. By the time I reached Simon's home, he couldn't do the interview," says McCarroll. "I apologized profusely, blamed the traffic and apologized some more." Simon rescheduled the interview, but McCarroll's useless round trip, which should have taken four hours, consumed more than seven...
...majority of people who confront the panhandlers day after day. The encounter is often frightening, always discomfiting, for Americans live in cities full of appalling contrasts: the verminous tenements rub up beside the million-dollar developments; the high-rises tower over the ghettos. It is hard for those who trip on a beggar as they leave a restaurant, where they may have just spent more on a meal than some people earn in a week, to claim that they cannot spare some change. The question, rather, is, Should they...
...attraction. Richard Tobin, a Miami market-research executive, fondly recalls how he spent his summers speeding around a Michigan lake in the wooden craft. Nowadays he keeps several old runabouts at the same lake so he can take his family on rides and picnics. Says he: "It's a trip into the days when our cares were a little bit different." The most fervent of all collectors is probably Alan Furth, former vice chairman of the Santa Fe Southern Pacific Railroad, who has acquired 61 boats. Over the years he has sold only...
Could the P.L.O. ever deliver an unconditional statement acknowledging Israel's right to exist? For the U.S. to be impressed, a senior Administration official says, "it's got to be something big, comparable to Anwar Sadat's trip to Jerusalem," which led to the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty of 1979. But in the West Bank last week came an echo of the savage internal P.L.O. feuding that has almost always paralyzed Arafat when he has undertaken diplomatic initiatives. Any Palestinian serving in the proposed provisional government, warned a leaflet circulated by an anti-Arafat faction, "will be tried...
...said over and over again why I want to be President. My trip to Poland ((in 1987)) drove home to me the disproportionate responsibility of the United States. I know enough about the churning in Eastern Europe today to think that maybe there is a chance, not a fifty-fifty but a longer-shot chance, of having more freedom for the people there if we handle our policy of differentiation correctly and build on it. I want to offer the hope of freedom to countries around the world because that's the basis of our very being in this country...