Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile Colombia, the conference host, had popped off and granted Somoza recognition. Most Latin American republics would probably soon follow Colombia's lead. If such a bandwagon started rolling, the U.S. might have to climb aboard, no matter whether it liked all the passengers...
...salvaging this one, the Crimson can climb into a three-way tie for the Big Three title. Otherwise Yale winds up first, Princeton second and the Varsity last...
...lamp on his noggin, having completely encircled the globe. In Shanghai, Powell crosses paths with Signe Hasso, in company with a young Chinese girl who later turns out to be older than she looks and ringleader of the entire dope chain. After a quick hop to Egypt and a climb up a precipitous Red Sea cliff, he discovers what he is looking for, a freshly harvested poppy field disguised as a rose plantation. And from there he follows the raw opium across the Atlantic, finally closing in on the whole racket in a tense battle outside New York harbor...
Comeback. The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, once called "a bankrupt hunk of rusty junk," completed the painful climb to respectability (TIME, Feb. 17, 1947). It declared a common stock dividend-its first in 67 years, its second since it was founded...
Fans expecting to see a duplicate of the 1946 and '47 Crimson-Blue Arena duels, which were not decided until the final minutes, suffered through a one-sided, depressing contest. The Eli jumped to a fast lead and then settled into a steady climb toward its final 81 to 51 victory...