Word: cliff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...base camp. Expedition Leader Norman Dyhrenfurth waited for a walkie-talkie message from the climbers. Just below 28,000 ft., the West Ridge team faced its toughest obstacle: the "Yellow Band"-a 100-ft.-high cliff that resembles a shingled roof. Only pitons and rappel ropes kept Hornbein and Unsoeld inching upward. At last they radioed back that they had crossed the Yellow Band safely. But now they were past the "point of no return." Their supply of pitons was gone. They had to reach the summit and head down the easier South...
...casting for James Bond and Honeychile Rider, his principal mate, was almost as demanding as that for PT-109, and JFK will be lucky if Cliff Robertson fills him out the way Sean Connery does James Bond. Despite an annoying Scottish accent and some awkwardness in the early scenes, Connery almost pulls it off and his Bond is the sort of polished professional for whom Fleming's congregation has been waiting. Better still, Ursulla Andress (reportedly known as "Undress" on location) is just the sort of girl a tired agent deserves, and when she squeezes into a pink and white...
...Over the Cliff. On the night of the Guantanamo killing, said Szili, he had been drinking with Jackson, his company commander, at a base officers' club. Ruben Lopez, a Cuban employed as a base bus driver, was also there. "Other Cuban employees at Gitmo," Szili recalled, "had told us that he was one of Castro's boys, a spy." Jackson talked to Lopez, told him to stay away from restricted areas. The two American officers stayed at the bar. Szili said he had "perhaps six martinis." Then the two left and separated...
...managed to open the gate by himself, running back to find him. According to Szili, Jackson said he had been walking Lopez outside the base "toward a path that went back to civilization"; Lopez "jumped" Jackson, who fired his .45 in self-defense. Lopez tumbled over a cliff...
...Hannah? She is a prisoner, that's what. Seven years ago, goaded by the infidelities of her brutish husband Peter, she had an affair with the son of a neighboring squire. Peter found out and went into a rage; husband and wife struggled on the edge of a cliff, and over went Peter...