Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...woods had never been so full of orators who seemed to be running for President too-or of voters willing to climb into the family automobile and drive out to hear them. Bob, Dick and Harry (it was a great campaign for first names) were out talking as loudly as the candidates. From coast to coast, crowds gathered at sidings, perched on freight cars, jammed courthouse steps and airports, to be bathed in political oratory...
...Naguib exceeded anything reporters in Egypt had ever seen. Fellaheen along the Nile streamed out of the fields, shouting that Naguib is the "Savior of Egypt, Savior of the Farmers, Gift of Allah." Hundreds of villagers crowded in front of Naguib's Chevrolet convertible and tried to climb in to hug him. The police had to use rifle butts to keep him from being loved to death. After 50 miles of this, the car was battered and scratched, one door almost ripped...
...When you climb out of the IRT subway at the Morningside Heights station, you are flanked on one side by the noisy, dirty Amsterdam area of New York, and on the other by Columbia University, a polyglot jumble of tall buildings and patches of grass, watching indifferently over the bustling metropolitan scene...
...planning to supply the U.S. Christmas market with an up-to-date but frightening toy: a footlong, six-ounce rocket, similar to the German wartime V2, that zooms off a three-foot-long launching rack at almost 90 m.p.h., shoots up 300 feet. At the top of its climb, a small parachute breaks out from the nose and lets down the rocket slowly. It can then be refilled with a charge similar to those in firework skyrockets and used again. Price in Germany, about...
...Sack does something else too. Perhaps better than any other book this reviewer has read, The Butcher explains why people climb mountains. Most books chalk up a man's desire to scramble gasping up a peak to those glorious ten seconds on top, when he wipes the ice out of his eyes and gazes out several foggy feet into the swirling clouds. Sack makes much more sense. "Mountaineers enjoy the very process of climbing . . . they like climbing in itself." "There are some men," says Sack, "who believe that the means can be its own justification...