Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Civil Service, the line of policy-making positions should be more clearly drawn, and by an enactment more stable than a Presidential decree. If federal employees knew when their jobs were safe and when not, they would have greater incentive and a more clearly defined career ladder to climb. Whatever patronage such a line would climinate would be denied equally to both parties...
...Ridgepole. Even in those days, playing with her brothers, Grandma made a habit of excelling. "If they'd climb up a tree," she says, "I'd climb higher. They weren't goin' to outdo me. If they'd climb to the eaves of a house, I'd climb to the ridgepole...
...Grahame, consider the adult world utterly whimsical, lacking in logic and common sense. It is populated and governed by a "strange, anemic order of beings" whose "movements [are] confined and slow," whose habits are "stereotyped and senseless." With "absolute license to indulge in the pleasures of life," e.g., to climb trees or dabble in ponds, they prefer to sit indoors...
Everest begins, as all good epics should, before the beginning. Earlier attempts to climb the peak are described; the terrain is analyzed in a general way. Then, at a footpace, the script proceeds with the 1953 expedition-how it was organized in England, how the men were picked and trained, how the equipment was tested-and at a footpace, it continues every step of the way to the top of Everest...
...name on a marker, and was pulled to the surface drowned, his Aqua-Lung mouthpiece dangling uselessly. Miami's Skin Diver Root determined to learn more. Why take the risks? Said 52-year-old Diver Root: "I'm going to dive for the same reason people climb high mountains. It's a challenge...