Word: climbed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Combustion. The atmosphere was the same in most of Cape Province's polyglot cities. In the diamond town of Kimberley (pop. 75,000), the Negro location sprawls along the railroad tracks; white engineers sometimes scare off the matchstick-limbed Negro children who climb up on to the coaches begging for bread, by letting off gusts of scalding steam from their locomotives. A mob of Negro hoodlums spewed out of their beer halls, burning and pillaging saloons and municipal offices. Police killed 13. Earlier, in Port Elizabeth, four whites were murdered simply because they were whites. South Africans have often...
...answer to a persistent question, a famous mountain climber once said, "I climb a mountain climber once said, "I climb a mountain because it's there." An equally presistent question has been, "Why does a man fight bulls?" One looks for the answer in the autobiography of Sidney Franklin, the only American over to become a successful bullfighter. But while the book in an intriguing account of an exciting life, it never satisfies this demand...
...fought and beat Mussolini's armies in 1940 and was imprisoned by the Nazis for two years) was angry, but not so furious as the newspapers supporting him. Said Athens' Apogevmatini: "If the United Center should gain power through Communist support, Papagos will not permit you to climb to power." At week's end Papagos had to tone down his supporters' exuberance: He would stand by the election results whatever they were, he said. Actually the Communist switch, aimed so nakedly at taking over the machinery of the middle-of-the-road parties...
Labor. "Radicals hail American workers as their neglected brothers-and hope to climb to political power on their backs. Reactionary extremists attack American unions as unnecessary or greedy-and hope to climb to wealth on their broken backs." Instead, Eisenhower pledged "a government that would give fair and just hearing to all labor's needs and problems." Communism & McCarthyism. "The first [extreme] attacks the danger with a zeal that takes no account of our civil liberties. It wounds the innocent as well as the guilty. It is a parody of righteous justice. That extreme I have firmly and explicitly...
...England Primer: "Zacchaeus he/ Did climb the tree,/Our Lord to see." † †Song of Solomon...