Word: camped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crandall trained at a camp about 150 miles west of Denver, Dee says, high up in the Rocky Mountains. As Dee tells it, Crandall who was from sunny California, began to regret volunteering for the troop...
...action a campaign issue as long as he clings to even the slimmest prospect of attracting Colin Powell to the Republican ticket. When the issue came up during a recent Dole strategy session, campaign manager Scott Reed quickly shot it down. A Dole adviser who attended said the Dole camp will not discuss affirmative action anytime soon--and maybe not for a long time...
...long been a feature of the election campaign, this attack was by far the most incendiary. "Yeltsin's team is trying to paint the race as a black and white contest, even though there are 11 candidates in the first round pool," says Moscow correspondent Sally Donnelly. "Yeltsin's camp is telling the electorate that if they vote for the marginal candidates, Zyuganov will win and the result will be a terrible tragedy. They characterize a vote for anyone but Yeltsin as a terrible waste." The scare tactics tap into real fears that Yeltsin or his challengers might step outside...
Those who survived the storm have the choice of seeing their fate as either a happy accident or a miracle. Fischer's climbers, now led by guide Neal Beidleman, were saved when Beidleman glimpsed the Big Dipper during a storm lull and was able to navigate them into camp. Gau's sherpa managed to wake him and get him down to the high camp, where he could receive fluids intravenously. But the most remarkable revival was that of Weathers, the Dallas doctor. At 9 a.m. on Saturday, fellow climbers left behind his apparently lifeless body; that morning the news...
...thin air reduces their lift. Yet Madan flew up to a giant cross the climbers had painted on the Everest ice with red Kool-Aid. There he hovered, runners just touching the snow's treacherous surface, as Gau was loaded on board. Madan flew Gau down to the base camp, then repeated the process with Weathers. It was the second-highest helicopter rescue in history...