Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said one of the 2nd's regimental commanders: "If the [ROK] unit on our east flank had not collapsed, we would have piled so many Chinese on the minefields to our front that their own troops would not have been able to climb over the bodies. As it was, they got around my regiment. We slaughtered so many that their blood covered our boots because we had to walk over them to get into the new perimeter. They poured into our lines despite our tremendous firepower. They cut off companies and battalions. But as we pulled into...
...attend Harvard ("I am very glad I am not a Yale freshman; the hazing there is pretty bad. The fellows too seem to be a much more scrubby set than ours"), to marry twice and beget six children ("Nothing else . . . can take the place of family life"), to climb the Matterhorn ("I was anxious to go up it because ... a man . . . can fairly claim to have taken his degree as, at any rate, a subordinate kind of mountaineer"), to become a rancher in North Dakota ("These westerners have now pretty well accepted me ... as a representative stockman...
...Dailey) and an expert "inside man" (Sam Jaffe) into a manufacturing partnership in the $10.95 dress line, cons her sister into putting up the money for her stake. Eager to climb the garment center escalator from dresses to frocks to gowns, she double-crosses Dailey by making a tricky deal with an unctuous department-store tycoon (George Sanders). But when the time comes to leave her partners bankrupt and give Sanders his price (payable in his bachelor quarters), the tigress melts into a woman with a weakness for long-suffering Salesman Dailey...
Treatment Plus. In osteopathy's long, slow climb toward respectability, every nod has helped. The nation's six accredited schools of osteopathy require four years of professional training, as medical colleges do, and two years of college-level pre-training for a doctor's degree (D.O.).Their curricula include anatomy, pharmacology, surgery, bacteriology, other standard subjects in the education of a medical doctor. In all but eight states,* their graduates may now prescribe drugs and perform surgery, as well as practice the "manipulation" which is the keynote of their science. The main trouble has been the osteopath...
...hair-raising climb on a 30-foot ladder brought them to the tower's second level, where they repeated the operation on four more bulbs. Lowell House officials knew nothing about the affairs until the night watchman turned the lights on in honor of Lowell's opera, "Amadis...