Word: cliffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...parades, Mexicans were honoring their defenders against the U.S., which, just 100 years ago, invaded the country in the name of "manifest destiny." The highest tributes were reserved for Los Niñs Heroes-the five teen-age cadets and their instructor who (legend says) threw themselves over the cliff at Chapultepec Castle rather than surrender to General Winfield Scott's U.S. troops in the war's climactic battle...
...rocky cliff was jammed with people hanging from every outcropping. At the foot, President Miguel Aleman stepped forward to lay a wreath. Then, one by one, cadet delegations from 16 hemisphere countries marched into the little enclosure, saluted, marched out. There was applause for the Brazilians, the Argentines, the Colombians. Then applause grew louder. It became a roar. High on the cliffside, men shouted "Hi! Hi! Hi!" It had been no mistake after all. Next to cadets from their own Colegio Militar, Mexicans had given the five white-uniformed West Pointers the biggest hand...
Last week from one peak, hidden in rain and fog, fishermen heard an explosion that echoed from cliff to cliff. The Kvitbjoern, bound from Tromso to Oslo, burned for several hours. None of its 27 passengers and eight crewmen survived. It was the worst disaster ever for the Norwegian Airlines (headed by Admiral Byrd's old pilot, Bernt Balchen...
...there was still another ending to the episode. Comfortable, florid ABC Vice President Ed Borroff was among the listeners that day. A longtime critic of such programs, he decided that the cliff-hang ending had gone quite far enough. Last week Borroff gave orders which may chip away dangerously at the foundations of all soap operas, as well as kid-chillers. Jack Armstrong and his running mate, Sky King, he ruled, need more time, less suspense. After Aug. 25 the shows will be heard on alternate days and stretched to a full half hour. Each day there will...
...fifth inning was another story. The first batter led off with a single. The next two men walked, filling the bases. Harrison then forced the next two batters to pop up, but walked another man. Cliff Crosby then tripled down the first base line clearing the bases and making the score 5 to 4. In their half, the Crimson made it five all with two singles and two walks. The score remained tied until the last of the eight...