Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outdoor basketball and tennis courts also made way for the new gym. Harvard men could no longer climb the high wooden fence surrounding the basketball area to snicker at the female athletes in their white middles, red bloomers, and black stockings...
...reserving to the U.S. the right to determine when such action was "necessary." Acheson felt that this compromise was forthright enough to reassure Western Europeans, while worded properly to reassure Senators, who didn't want to surrender their Constitutional right to declare war. Norway was all set to climb aboard. Even Denmark's Foreign Minister Gustav Rasmussen, who thought the U.S. was trying to hustle him through the gate, indicated that the Danes might be willing to step aboard now of their own volition...
Into the presidency of the rich Union Pacific, third largest U.S. railroad, stepped a railroader's railroader. At 53, tall, taciturn Arthur E. Stoddard had reached the top, after a typical railroader's climb from the very bottom...
Then Dan Gardella tired of Mexican baseball after one season, and tried to climb back. Complains Gardella: "Not only did organized baseball blacklist me, but it wouldn't permit me to earn a living in semi-pro ball . . . He filed suit against the Giants, against Baseball Commissioner Albert B. ("Happy") Chandler and the major & minor leagues...
This picture is packed. It's got everything but a wild west chase. The story of a British psychiatrist who can't solve his own problems, "Mine Own Executioner" bonsts a murder, a suicide on a tenth-floor ledge, a hair-raising ladder climb, a schizophrenic, a plane going down in flames, a sinister Luger, Japanese torturers, truth serums, a to-the-rescue courtroom exoneration, and a little boy whose gap-toothed, trusting grin sets everything right in a fogless London...