Word: climbed
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...climb is encumbered with a heavy load of symbolism. The mountain itself symbolizes Life, and each member of the climbing party is tagged with a different nationality and a different motive for climbing, i.e., for living. The climbers: a warmhearted Italian girl (Valli), a war-weary American (Glenn Ford), an unreconstructed Nazi (Lloyd Bridges), a decadent Frenchman (Claude Rains), a philosophical Englishman (Sir Cedric Hardwicke), a dutiful Swiss (Oscar Homolka). Before the peak comes into sight, they revert pretty much to national typecasting, and the plot maneuvers them to illustrate some simple homilies (e.g., Love conquers all; United we stand...
...were a vet I would suggest you ought to be destroyed. As it is, I can only suggest that you climb Nelson's Monument and jump into Trafalgar Square. That is, if your back doesn't hurt too much...
Unlike bees and ants, spiders do not handle their military and supply problems collectively; they are rugged individuals. Hence it is usually important that the young disperse as soon as possible, in order not to interfere with one another. With most spiders, dispersion is accomplished by ballooning. The young climb in great hordes to an eminence of some sort (e.g., a tree stump), and wait for calm, warm weather. When it comes, the little ones throw out streamers of gauzy silk and rise on warm currents of ascending air. If the currents are spotty, the spiders may come to earth...
...same blue-chip stocks which had led the market's upward climb were hard hit. Chrysler fell 7 points to 73, General Motors was down 6⅜ to 90⅛, and A.T. & T. down 5⅞ to 153. Television stocks, a favorite of speculators, also skidded...
Lancaster, a gnomish dandy who looks at the world across one of the most magnificent pair of mustachios still in private hands, sees the history of Drayneflete as a steady upward climb until it reaches the 18th Century. From then on, esthetic disaster follows esthetic disaster until the stage is set for the final horror: the Drayneflete of Tomorrow...