Word: clambering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Evgraf, Pasha, Komarovsky (the old lecher), and Tonia (Zhivago's first wife) rush onto the stage, whisper or shout their say, commit their little deeds and consider their situations, and the clamber back into the wings. Some, like Zhivago, are tangled in the threads of introspection; others don't appear to think at all. Does Komarsky help Lara out of a sense of guilt for having violated her, out of a real love, or what: What sort of person is Tonia? Why did Pasha really leave home? Unfortunately, we can't tune in tomorrow...
...morning long. It was a much bigger job than he-had expected. By noon Kawamura had dug down 6 ft. of earth and uncovered one face of the tombstone-a massive slab 1 ft. thick and 4 ft. wide. Apparently bent on a rest, he started to clamber out of the 6-ft. pit. But. at just that moment, the huge gravestone toppled forward and crashed down on the luckless Kawamura. What the fortuneteller had prophesied had, in a fashion, come to pass: Kawamura's bad luck was at last at an end. He was dead...
...MacDonald Fortune, 18, is the lad in from Lagos, Nigeria, wearing a white and crimson sweater, a nylon shirt with gold safety pins on each collar point, and a sky-blue gabardine jacket. The first thing he does in London, for the sky-blue hell of it, is to clamber up a down escalator. And in a sense that is what he does in rundown London for the rest of his stay...
...station, the crew gets a lecture in handling fires that might break out in the unearthly, exotic fuels. In a grey and silver building, one man takes charge of 53 spools of colored wire used to maintain the big IBM 704 impact predictor computer. On the launching pads, workers clamber along the service-tower catwalks to tinker with the steel-fisted launcher that holds a missile down during thrust buildup...
...reporters still standing on the tracks, and Wendell Willkie, thinking they were voters, waved farewell from the rear platform. When Jim Hagerty was press secretary to Tom Dewey a few years later, an officious Dewey aide ordered a train to move out while eight reporters were still rushing to clamber aboard. Hagerty dashed up ahead of the train, planted his foot on the track, forcing the engineer to stop. "They yelled like hell," recalls Hagerty. "But I knew...