Word: cliffes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Siren Left. Only 30 miles before Geelong, an Aussie Ford missed a sharp turn at 70 m.p.h., skidded through a fence and wound up with its rear wheels hanging over a small cliff. That first casualty lost the rally its only car equipped with a siren for scaring off kangaroos...
Next morning the climbers came face to face with a rock cliff that slanted 50 yds. straight out at a 110° angle. "Absolutely unclimbable," said Bonatti. But there was no going back. Leaning out into 2,000 ft. of air ("the worst fear I ever had to overcome"), Bonatti finally found a tiny fissure in the rock. He pounded in steel pitons, and from them he and Gobbi hung backward over nothing while easing out from under the rock to reach the sheer green ice face above. There, with Ice Expert Gobbi leading, they climbed 2,000 ft. more...
...calm, sunny afternoon in Algiers the terrace cafés were filled with shirt-sleeved apéritif drinkers, and families lingered in the palm-shaded parks. At the Casino de la Corniche, perched on a cliff overlooking the blue Mediterranean, teenagers danced to the rhythms of Lucky Starways and his orchestra. In a nightmare of sudden sight and sound-a shattering blast, the music stopped in midflight, the thunder of a heavy explosion -the peaceful picture was erased. It was a time bomb under the orchestra platform. In a flash the tea danqe became a scene of death...
...woman and a child. The young Europeans invited the woman and child out. Then they dragged out the two men, beat them to death, and threw the bodies over the sea wall to the rocks 40 feet below. Then they lifted the Ford and dropped it over the cliff after them. Police, stoically watching this performance, brushed aside a protest by foreign newsmen that they stop the slaughter, said: "We haven't received orders." A French paratroop major who tried to intervene was slapped in the face by a uniformed Territorial private. Dazed and humiliated, the officer stumbled away...
...Committee to an all-out Ikeman, New Jersey's Clifford Case (who also picked up the third-ranking spot on Banking and Currency which Ives vacated in exchange for the Appropriations post). That still left the Senate with a pair of vacancies to fill on committees from which Cliff Case had departed: 1) District of Columbia, and 2) Post Office and Civil Service. Each is so lowly that no Senator bothered to bid for it. Result: the posts will be left open for McCarthy's successor from Wisconsin, whoever he may be and whenever he is elected...