Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Buildup. Hunt began by hand-picking eleven mountaineers to work as a team in overcoming the tricky terrain and getting two of their number to the top. He timed his attack between the end of the winter gales and the start of the summer monsoons. By the time Hunt and his team reached the foot of Everest, the expedition had swelled to almost 400 hands, most of them coolies to carry equipment and food across the roadless approaches...
...Assumption. "When the present military buildup was begun, after the outbreak of the Korean war in 1950, the strategic assumption . . . was that Soviet action on a world scale was imminent . . . Soviet scientists had successfully tested an atomic device ... In the face of this and other developments. American military planners marked the year 1954 as a date of acute danger...
...Buildup. In Denver, Mrs. Erma R. Gentle, 27, won an interlocutory divorce after testifying that her husband John spent all his money on hobbies, once exercised so diligently with bar bells that he was too exhausted to do anything else...
Some feel such treatment is excessive, but a review of his performance against Harvard last year, and of his season totals both last year and this, perhaps justify this Big Buildup. At least Smith, an all Eastern choice last year as a junior, is a very important cog in a Princeton football machine that has run down considerably since last season...
...fairly heavy line, averaging 191 pounds, about the same as the varsity's. It is not an experienced line. But nevertheless, Caldwell has Smith and Flippin to throw at the Crimson. Big Buildup or no, they can easily make the difference...