Word: cliff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another step in the New Jersey Republican Party's efforts toward self-destruction. In 1953 G.O.P. leaders threw away the governorship by putting up a weak candidate, New Jersey Turnpike Builder Paul Troast. This year a party faction that had learned the lesson of 1953 got able, popular Cliff Case to resign from a $40,000-a-year Ford Foundation job and take the nomination for the U.S. Senate. A short time later, after Case issued a statement attacking Joe McCarthy, the Old Guard faction began to make trouble...
...G.O.P. suicide attempt in New Jersey is hurting Cliff Case, but he has the wholehearted backing of the White House and is still a strong contender. Always a big vote getter in his own congressional district, he ran 10,000 votes ahead of Dwight Eisenhower in 1952. His basic political philosophy: the U.S. should .follow a great middle way, and the Republican Party is the instrument to find that...
...trip down, as the afternoon wore on, the climbers looked for short cuts. Rashly they scrambled down a 250-ft. cliff to a wide and treacherous snow field. Suddenly Neal disappeared. "I was walking on some wet rock," he remembered later, "when I slipped and fell into a 75-ft. crevasse." Hastily the climbers lowered a rope. The end caught in a cranny beyond Neal's reach. Ice water trickled into Neal's upturned face. Three-quarters of an hour passed and still he could not reach the rope. Then Tony Levy told the others to lower...
...tension broken. Milton Ellenby and William A. Rosen of Chicago, Lew Mathe of Los Angeles, John Moran of Houston and Cliff Bishop of Detroit went on to take the Masters' Knockout Championship with a string of seven straight victories, won the right to represent the U.S. in next year's international matches in New York City...
Escape in the Night. He fired his pistol once in the direction of the shooting, then slipped off his shoes and scrambled up a steep, rocky cliff out of the line of fire...