Word: camped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drawing disgruntled Southern Democrats into his well-organized G.O.P. camp, he was able to harry the Roosevelt Administration and kill many a New Deal bill. Wrote the late Columnist Raymond Clapper: "Martin has received the reluctant but spectacular tribute of being the first Republican since the middle of the Hoover Administration to put the fear of God into the Democratic leadership...
...last week. The case against Constance Drexel, 64 (no kin to the Philadelphia Drexels), was dismissed for lack of evidence; the indictment against Frederick W. Kaltenbach, onetime Dubuque, Iowa high-school teacher, was dismissed after Russian authorities notified the U.S. that he died in a Soviet concentration camp...
...Italian monasteries dawn found monks who had been praying all night that Christianity would prevail on this day. Two hours before the polls opened, a bent, solitary woman, carrying a camp chair for the long wait, crossed Rome's vast, deserted Piazza del Popolo; the garish posters, remnants of one of the world's most momentous election campaigns, proclaimed their slogans like demagogues before an empty hall...
...Britons, G. L. Mallory and A. C. Irvine, climbed up to 27,000 ft. and pitched camp. There they left their three porters and pushed upward into the mists. Whether they reached the top will probably never be known; they were never seen again. In 1933, the Marquess of Clydesdale (now the Duke of Hamilton) made the first flight over the mountain...
Puzzle Solved. On two seismographs at their Stonington Island camp, expedition members recorded a full year of earth rumblings. They also charted temperatures, magnetic variations, the intensity of cosmic rays, the rise & fall of tides (average change: 4 ft.), atmospheric refraction that makes distant icebergs seem to dangle in the air. They found traces of coal, copper and uranium (but none worth mining at present), collected evidence that one continent has been slowly rising as its ice cap melts...