Word: ascent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some faraway disaster. There was an irresistible compulsion to do everything and try everything. That is when he began to shoot rapids and climb mountains." This compulsion, an almost existential need to dare the elements, combined with a lifelong love of physical exertion, prompted him to lead the first ascent of the Yukon's 14,000-ft. Mount Kennedy, named for his brother, and plunge, during a 1965 canoe trip down the Amazon, into piranha-infested waters. A group of Indians cried anxiously that he was risking his life. "Have you ever heard of a United States Senator being...
...their way into mediocrity the past two years, and every indication points to them staying there for at least a while. Squash hasn't won a national championship in two years, which is like a ten-year drought for anyone else, swimming and baseball are only now beginning their ascent to the top after a couple of off-seasons, while soccer, basketball and lacrosse, none too hot to begin with, are at least breathing some signs of life these days. Indeed, as far as championships are concerned, Harvard is in a slump...
Three Proofs. To simulate an emergency "fire-in-the-hole" situation in which astronauts descending toward the moon in the LM are suddenly forced to return to the orbiting mother ship, controllers again fired the descent engine. While it was burning, they also fired the 3,500-lb.-thrust ascent engine, which will be used to lift the astronauts off the surface of the moon. Blasting its flame directly into a depression atop LM's descent stage, the engine separated the ascent stage-consisting of the ascent engine and the two-man LM cockpit-and pulled it away from...
...natural place to glow was the House of Commons, where, as his biographer observes, Churchill's bulldozing ascent soon earned him respect and enmity in equal measure: "When he was a backbencher, Churchill had spoken as if he were an Under-Secretary; as Under-Secretary, as if a member of the Cabinet; and when he reached the Cabinet, he was apt to speak as if he were Prime Minister." It is only fair to add that as Prime Minister, he was likely to speak as if he were...
...World of Sports, which has telecast 90 different sports events in 31 countries, he goes to uncommon lengths "to capture the spirit of the place, the people and the event." In 1965, when a team of mountain climbers scaled the Matterhorn to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the first ascent, they were greeted on top by an ABC camera team that had climbed up the day before to film the event...