Word: cliffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could a 63-year-old slither down a makeshift rope from a cliff-walled Nazi fortress? How could a politically important prisoner escape from such a feudal bastion, guarded every hour by men alert to his potential value? Why would such an escaped prisoner walk into the arms of stooges working in handcuff harmony with his erstwhile captors...
Dunster: Bill Lucas, stroke; Walt Rogers, 7; Bill Schal, 6; Frank Hammond, 5; Fred Cunningham, 4; Al Schmidt, 3; Tom Winship, 2; Finn Ferner, 1; Cliff Taylor...
Under the towering, snow-swatched cliff in conquered Norway's Trondheim Fjord the Tirpitz lay, 35,000 tons or more of naval might. No R.A.F. bomb or torpedo had yet shaken...
...When Nelson took over, OPM's power section had been trying for six months to get power lines into a plant abuilding at Lake Catherine, Ark., which will turn out 65,000 tons of aluminum a year. Nelson told his man Cliff Hill to get it done. That afternoon the order went out to the Rural Electrification Administration, while private power men and Congressmen squawked...
...rugged fishermen of nearby St. Lawrence Harbor ran to the cliff top, lowered a boat on ropes. It capsized. The waves threw men from the two wrecks against the cliff base, some alive, many dead. Rigging a breeches-buoy to the ledge where half-frozen survivors perched, the fishermen brought up, one by one, those who were not washed away before their turn came. The dead numbered nearly 200, and Commander Hickox was among them...