Word: trip
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Trip...
...then came the greatest scientific surprise of the trip. The tremors continued far beyond expectations. "It is as though someone struck a bell in the belfry of a church and it kept reverberating for 30 minutes," explained Maurice W. Ewing, director of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory. Later scientists said that reverberations had lasted as long as 55 minutes. "We've never seen anything like it on earth," said M.I.T. Geophysicist Frank Press. "We're not sure what it means, but probably it will represent a major discovery completely unanticipated about the moon." It could...
Teen-age sophisticates can snicker as much as they like, but Mrs. John Mitchell's first experiment with marijuana was a sure enough bad trip. The Attorney General's wife offered to help dramatize a Bureau of Narcotics briefing for Justice Department wives by taking a whiff of some marijuana leaves burning in a pot. "I stuck my head right over it," Mrs. Mitchell recalls, "and no sooner had I got my head up off the stuff than my eyes started running and my throat was all irritated." Despite medication, a violent 24-hour allergic reaction...
...statement that "Those who stayed home might as well be dead." Many of those who stayed at home were concerned and many acted and many more wore symbols of peace in individual protests. And those for whom last weekend in Washington was no more than an ego trip-I don't think they deserve any recognition for that...
...Then Yale came along. Bob Milligan got just behind the secondary to receive a long pass from Massey. and he would have scored but for Fred Martucci's right hand, which barely managed to trip...