Word: clambering
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...mayor has sensibly proposed building an emergency control center for merely $15 million in the World Trade Center. Should any danger--be it a raid by crazed fundamentalist bioterrorists, a stock-market crash or a strike of rollerblading dog walkers--threaten New York, the mayor would inch through traffic, clamber up 22 flights of steps (can't trust elevators in a crisis--they might be booby-trapped!), pausing only to sign autographs for tourists, and soon be in command of all municipal defense forces as well as a secure phone line to the President...
...ways of thinking to her fellow peasants. Village women come to her for advice on organizing family chores, raising children, being better wives, becoming better citizens. Even the men, conservative and suspicious, listen to her because of her enterprise and the wealth it has earned. "We needed to clamber out of poverty," she says. "I thought if I could do this, it could make other people's lives better...
John and Susan Purcell toured Yellowstone this winter the new, noisy way--by snowmobile. And like thousands of visitors who clamber onto winter scooters every week to explore America's oldest national park, they can't get over those close encounters with wild elk, moose, trumpeter swans, coyotes and, closest of all, buffalo. The huge, hairy beasts--some weighing as much as a Volkswagen--ambled right down the middle of the road, often forcing drivers to hit their brakes to avoid a meaty collision. "We got within 5 ft. of them!" says an excited John Purcell. "I've never seen...
...boom in overseas funds. On average, foreign mutuals have soared nearly 30% so far this year. A distinct scent of euphoria surrounds "emerging markets" in Asia and Latin America, as U.S. money cascades in and pushes them to new heights. As this speculative bandwagon gathers speed, more investors clamber aboard. Americans plowed a record $7 billion into overseas funds in 1992, plus $21.7 billion more in the first nine months of this year. It's hard to argue with double-digit gains, no matter where they...
...soldiers on the tarmac push the hysterical crowds back with rifle butts, Abkhazian gunners train their fire on the runway. Those who do manage to clamber into an outbound plane discover that they have boarded a flying morgue. The backs of seats are pushed forward to accommodate stretchers bearing soldiers too critically injured to survive the 35-minute flight to Tbilisi. What little space remains is packed with refugees who even wedge themselves into the toilets, indifferent to the stench. The situation is horrific, but now that the Abkhazian artillery has made evacuation by sea impossible, the only remaining exit...