Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ironton (Ohio) Courier a year ago, almost everyone thereabouts-including Fronia herself-expected the daily to be the crowning glory of a successful business career. In the Ohio River towns of Ironton and Ashland. Ky., where even competitors called her a "business genius," Mrs. Sexton had started her climb in the '20s with a small restaurant, nursed her assets until she was able to buy a movie chain, assorted real estate, and controlling interest in the Citizens National Bank, of which she became president...
...time the field reached Melbourne, it had dwindled to 134. Murray, whose car was rattling along on cracked shock absorbers and a twisted frame, jettisoned half a ton of equipment for the climb across the Australian Alps and home. Wearing rubber monkey masks as a final gag, he and his navigator, Bill Murray (no kin), dawdled through the mountains, stopped now and then to take movies, and rolled into the Sydney show ground last week easy winners. In 17 days on the road they were the only entrants who lost no points...
...British ambassador promised to be equally unhelpful and kept his promise so brilliantly that frozen-out newsmen later called him "the extra-special correspondent of the Times." Soon the expedition set out from the Nepal capital weighted down with 7½ tons of equipment. Izzard sadly watched his story climb away from him. It was going to take place three weeks away as a man walks (nearly 200 miles over murderously wild, roadless country), and the only way to get there was on foot. Resolutely, Izzard followed after the Hunt expedition with his own expedition...
...part of two pairs of sneakers, a few pots, an old U.S. Army pup tent, an umbrella to ward off the leeches that fell like leaves from the trees. The incongruous team traveled fast and far over rough country carpeted with rhododendrons, orchids and magnolias. Izzard had never climbed anything more formidable than a flight of stairs, but he caught up to the British advance party after 19 days. It was more than 18,000 feet up the side of Everest. The expedition physiologist, who had made the climb carefully and slowly to become acclimatized, seemed dazed when Izzard came...
...lighter, but pounds (sterling) richer in bonus money. His feat made fat headlines and dazzling copy. It also gave him a clean beat on the Times, during the first crucial days of the expedition that conquered Mount Everest, though the Times beat everyone on the big story, the climb to Everest's summit...