Word: cliff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...began to look less as if the economy would smash itself headlong into a cliff -more as if it were going to run into a series of unexpected, nasty potholes...
...Tweed held out. One by one, the other Americans were caught and beheaded or shot. His days of electric-lit caves and radios were over, but high on a cliff facing the ocean at the northern end of the island, he found at last the perfect haven. Only one man, his friend Antonio, came there to bring him food. Tweed stayed for 21 months with only an algebra book, nine magazines and a pack of cards for company until the day a U.S. destroyer crew caught sight of his mirror and flag signals, sent in a motor launch to start...
...when General James Wolfe scaled Quebec's heights in 1759, Major General George P. Hayes's roth Mountain Division was jolting the German loose from the Apennine positions upon which he had based the center of his line. South of Bologna expert climbers set ropes on sheer cliff faces. Up those ropes swarmed the troops to catch the Nazis by surprise, smash them back five miles through jagged country. U.S. troops, supported by Brazilians, drove against the defenses of the Panara Valley, reached for the highway junction of Vergato...
...Network announces the election of Phillip Stern '47, as President; Charles Shaw '46, as Technical Director; William Sullivan '45, as Business Manager; and Cliff Wharton '47, as Production Director. Martin Book-span '47, continues as Program Manager...
Mikkola will enter a slightly different mile foursome from the one that whipped Rhode Island State earlier in the season. Bob Clark and Cliff Wharton remain from the original quartet, and the new men are Vic Steinbauer and Charlie Atwell...