Word: ascent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...party arrived on the scene just as the fun was about to begin -an ill-timed arrival for Her Majesty's representative. Mr. Bennett faced down the sullen hillmen, stopping the show, and Kalyanu helped to see him through. Later, Mr. Bennett took Kalyanu along on an exploratory ascent of the high Himalayan range. On a glassy snow slope at 15,000 feet the two men were caught in a cloud. They fell, but broke their fall and were not killed. But Mr. Bennett would never have made it back to camp without Kalyanu...
...Plush records the gradual social ascent of the muttony Moorhouses during the Victorian Era: their little intrigues, their innumerable dinners and tea parties, their meandering, witless conversations and their damp love affairs. (Like all good bourgeois, the Moorhouses reject the wild delights of love for the solid comforts of money and status...
...past few months there had been nothing particularly spectacular about the day-by-day progress of the ascent. But the cumulative effect was beginning to make a half-dollar look like a quarter, and a quarter like a jukebox slug. By June 15 the cost of living was 58.5% higher than in the period from 1935-39. (The post-World War I rise reached a peak of 105.2% above 1914 prices.) Clothing had risen 101.6%; food, 96.1%; house furnishings, 78%; fuel...
...members of a Mountaineering Club expedition to scale Mt. Waddington, highest peak in British Columbia, brought back word yesterday of the sudden death of Charles Shiverick '50, killed by an avalanche in the 13,260 foot ascent...
Fifty-Fifty. Hedda's ascent has created a serious problem for the studios. Once the question was: How do we make sure that Louella is the first to know? Now it has become: How do we manage to let Louella know first without getting Hedda hopping? Some publicity chiefs tried giving both girls the story at once. The result, neither would print it. Finally they tried doling out "scoops" on a nominal 50-50 basis (actually, Louella is given about 60%, and that is probably the clearest measure of her edge on Hedda...