Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Somebody was out to get the hard-driving Reuther boys of U.A.W. But who? And why? The Reuthers had made enemies in their climb to power in U.A.W., but Vic, the quiet union educational director and behind-the-scenes strategist, insisted that he could not imagine who would want to kill him. Walter Reuther wasn't quite sure either: "The same people who paid to have me shot paid to have my brother shot and for the same reason. They could be diehard elements among employers, or they could be Communist or fascist agents." Michigan Senators Arthur Vandenberg...
Inactive since 1933 and unsealed for years, Colombia's snow-capped Purace Volcano seemed just the place for an adventurous outing. From the high school at Popayan 24 miles away, 18 students and a truck driver set off one morning last week to climb the mile-high mountain. Except for two students who got tired and lagged a quarter mile behind, the climbers had no trouble getting close to the top. Just as they opened a bottle of rum to celebrate their easy success, a terrific explosion shook Purac...
This year, British exports to dollar areas, after a year of steady climb, turned sharply downward; for the first two months, exports were 13% below the last quarter of 1948. If the trend continues, Britain will still have a dollar deficit when ECAid is stopped in 1952. "It's no longer a matter of production," explained the Board of Trade's President Harold Wilson. "It's now a matter of selling...
Coyotes, says Author Dobie, know how to play dead, disguise themselves, hunt in groups; they are said to climb to the same hilltop every evening to sing; they play jokes, trick other animals, imitate the sounds they hear, and they learn man's ways with incredible rapidity. Fences cannot keep these sly relations of the dog and the wolf out of a sheep range or a chicken yard: some Southwest natives believe that they talk to the fences and the fences open up and let them through. Barbed-wire fences had some trouble understanding them at first...
...love him, the lily-like Lucrezia tries to do him in with a dollop of poisoned wine. Lund seems to enjoy all this nonsense, but he is the only member of the cast who does. Miss Goddard, trailing around in sumptuous gowns, waits in vain for an opportunity to climb alluringly in & out of a Renaissance...