Word: cliff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Varsity, are not a Yardling specialty, but as the Exeter meet showed, are a sizeable source of the necessary points. high jumper Ed Mahoney who registered the winning score in the schoolboy meet, may repeat his performance next week, but will have his hands full against the confident Indians. Cliff Howard and George Hibbard are the Crimson contenders in the shot put. In the broad jump, Bob Gillette has covered over 21 feet this year, and in his native California he done even better...
...jammed with traffic; they were trapped. "Get going. Make it fast. Get moving or we'll kill you." Back in the store panic was spreading as police with drawn revolvers moved down the aisles shouting, "Get down!" The cab stalled behind a bus. Like men leaping over a cliff, the brothers jumped out into the traffic. At sight of the two running men, waving revolvers, people flattened themselves against the buildings or ducked to the sidewalk. A taxi driver ran to Patrolman Edward Maher, directing traffic on the corner, yelled "Stick-up!" and pointed at the fleeing men. Maher...
There was evidence that Adolf Hitler was getting ready for just that. For months a common sight in Germany has been the spectacle of picked troops practicing cliff-climbing along river banks. They have been observed plugging away at embarkation and disembarkation maneuvers along the coast. Thousands more have been drilled as parachutists. To carry them across the Channel new concentrations of shipping were known to have been collected from Scandinavia to the Spanish border. Thousands of smaller vessels have been assembled from prefabricated parts, including small, speedy, troop-carrying launches and torpedo boats...
...dawn on Jan. 4 the Italians could reply only with intermittent fire. The British land-sea-air attack had silenced most of their guns. Huge clouds of smoke hung over the battered town. Then a whole section of the cliff gave way. Roaring down to the sea in an avalanche of sand and rock it wiped out many of the Italian gun positions in a single stroke...
Third-string tailback Cliff Helman was added to the re-jerseyed Varsity squad yesterday as it was announced that a delegation of 31' players will make the trip to the City of Brotherly Love. The squad will leave Boston shortly after midnight on Thursday and will practice on Franklin Field early Friday afternoon...