Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hawker Hunter, R.A.F. interceptors, flashed past the stands 100 ft. off the ground at an official 715 m.p.h., only a shade below the speed of sound. Pilot Derry in his DH-110, which was later to crash, zoomed to 17,000 ft. in a vertical, barrel-rolling climb. All three planes dived at the field, bombarding the stands with shock waves that sounded like cannon fire...
Whether flown by hot rods or not, the delta-wings are the hottest thing in aviation. They reflect the British philosophy of design. Britain needs speedy interceptors, like World War II's Spitfire, which can climb rapidly to great height. They must take off from small fields. They do not need great range...
...Chicago, where he started his professional climb to boxing fame 18 years ago, Old Heavyweight Champ Joe Louis announced that he had signed a contract to play the fight scenes himself in a biographical movie which will star a professional actor not yet selected...
...young U.S. hotspurs therefore decided to climb it. In 1950, for their summer vacation, they tossed away reason with their razors and hauled off to Peru as casually as if one of the highest unsealed peaks in the hemisphere were no more than a library ladder. What happened to them is described in The Butcher, by John Sack, news editor of the Harvard Crimson at the time, who tagged along as the expedition historian. "What started out as great fun," he truly relates, "turned into great adventure...
...were they downhearted? Not a bit of it. As soon as his feet had healed, Jim Maxwell went climbing in New Hampshire; Dave ordered a pair of custom boots, laid in a fresh supply of hubris, and set out to climb the Selkirks in British Columbia...