Word: clambering
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...sure don't be de dype to seddle down in a hole like dis," said the Norwegian skipper gloomily as he watched pert, young Santa Fe Schoolteacher Helen Wheaton get ready to clamber over the side of his dinky schooner in Atka Harbor. As she said goodbye to the skipper and boarded the bobbing dory in which her bridegroom waited with open arms, Helen was thinking much the same thing...
...Guileless Americans. In jungle areas they place fallen trees in front of their positions and snipe at our men, who are obliged to clamber over these trees, often stumbling in the process. For this purpose, U.S. snipers often take up positions in standing trees near...
...record number) could recall any other campaign so deliberately pitched in low key. At Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station the only concession to ceremony was a small and ancient green carpet on the platform. Not more than 25 onlookers, mostly idle switchmen, watched Tom Dewey and his wife clamber aboard the rear platform...
...dissolving frieze of floating debris, and lifts its eye to frame, in the light of predawn, its compact symbol of our time: a damaged boat, its compass smashed, its sole occupant a trullish photojournalist who has lived through so much that she calls herself "practically immortal." Further survivors clamber aboard, masked and anonymous with floating oil. As the little boat gets moving, the film suggests Poet E. E. Cummings...
...counted on the birth of 90 mammals, the hatching of an equal number of rare birds. Its latest swap brought two Central American quetzals, green-crested, scarlet-breasted "world's most beautiful bird," from New York's Bronx Zoo. Brookfield's starring attractions: 300 monkeys which clamber about sandstone cliffs, four giant eland from the Sudan, which may soon...