Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...issue $3.5 billion worth of 1% tax-anticipation certificates, pushing the debt to nearly $274,500,000,000. Between now and the first of the year, a period when tax collections are lowest, the Treasury will have to go deeper into the red. Humphrey estimates that the debt will climb to $280 billion before heavy tax collections in January pull it down...
...great Tris Speaker and Joe DiMaggio. He has hit 33 home runs in 89 games-a pace which puts him six games ahead of Babe Ruth's majestic record of 60 homers, and there are some impetuous enough to suggest that Willie is the one to climb that Everest of baseball some...
...Next Year." From then on, Willie was on fire. Up against Boston's Speedballer Warren Spahn for the first time in the Polo Grounds, he teed off on a three-and-one pitch and lofted it over the leftfield roof for a homer. His batting average started to climb. In the field he could do no wrong, did much that was phenomenal. He had an unconscious knack for doing the spectacular, an uncanny instinct for anticipating batters and baserunners. Once, when he dove out from under his cap (Mays frequently loses his cap) to catch a sinking line drive...
...When his editor ordered him off to Nepal to cover the British Everest Expedition and beat the Times of London, off he went. But how he could beat the Times, or even get the story, was a puzzler. The Times was subsidizing the expedition; by excluding all rivals from climb and climbers, it had a guaranteed airtight exclusive. Nonetheless, Correspondent Izzard, innocent as a fox, timid as a lion, moved in. An Innocent on Everest is his modest and amusing story of how, in spite of the Times, the expedition, the Foreign Office and the forces of nature, Reporter Izzard...
There is one steep climb on the way to Harlan, Ky. that the bus can make only by backing uphill, and often the Blue Goose runs out of gas when the gauge reads full and the players have to push her into the next town...