Word: assaulters
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...President, else he would have refused the job, and on both counts we congratulate him. Yet, for some reason--parochialism, perhaps--we can't avoid dwelling on the loss this involves to education and to the University in particular. Now that liberal arts colleges are sustaining one assault after another, this loss is heavier than one might suspect...
...This assault on a conventional ideal of the press is not such blasphemy as it might appear, for objectivity always has, is now, and ever will be a myth. Viewed narrowly, of course, nothing could be more accurate than a mere record of what was done at a particular time, but this is mere playing with words. What is important is the effect on the reader, and there is no more misleading article than one which simply reprints, say, every charge men like McCarthy make. Developments in foreign policy, atomic exhibitions, gyrations in the price of AT&T stock...
Howling gales whipped rocks around like baseballs. The numbing cold, 22° below zero, made even the simplest movement a major undertaking. The Mt. Everest assault team, camped at the 24,600 ft. level for twelve days waiting for the wind to abate, was exhausted just trying to breathe at that altitude. One veteran mountaineer described the feeling last week: "When you get that high, you just don't care. It's almost beyond human endurance...
...unofficial report had it that the team of Lambert, Ernest Reiss, 32, a Swiss military aviation mechanic, and Nepalese Mountaineer Bhotia Tensing, 44, came within 150 ft. of the summit. But it turned out last week that the tenth assault on unassailable Mount Everest- the first time an attempt had been made after the monsoon rains-had ended in failure again. The climbers, despite their new, improved oxygen equipment, never got beyond the 25,850-ft.. mark, were still some 3,700 windswept feet from their goal* when they gave...
...have had a possessive feeling about Everest ever since 1924, when George Mallory and Andrew Irvine disappeared in swirling mists less than 1,000 ft. from the summit, were not waiting for miracles. Britain's famed Himalayaman Eric Shipton promptly announced that British plans for a new assault next spring would go ahead full steam...