Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though fearless in her frontline social work, Pepita admits to one great terror: "Of mice and rats I have a loathing." At the sight of a Korean rodent she is likely to shout and climb atop the nearest ration or ammo box. Chic in the best French tradition, Pepita admits to 38 years (the chivalrous French have omitted her age from the battalion records), is pleased that no one in Korea has made a pass at her. Says she: "They are so very correct, always. It is all one family, and I am their sister. Oh, they are so fine...
...letter, began to take tutoring under Cramer along with hundreds of other Harvard students. His cancelled check was sufficient proof, and on January 15, 1948, the CRIMSON announced: "After taking an 8-year knockout count, Harvard's biggest bugaboo in recent years, the professional tutoring school, has begun its climb from the canvas...
...still in high favor 35 years later. The experts prefer to put it negatively: it is no longer clear that Molotov outranks Malenkov. And not far behind is Lavrenty Beria, the mysterious, pince-nezed master of the midnight arrest and lord of the slave camps, whose Gletkin-like climb has paralleled Malenkov's. But there have been signs that 52-year-old Beria is Malenkov's friend & ally, not his competitor...
...ranks are displeased with some of the City Manager's actions. The councillors, elected on a non-partisan, reform platform, believe that Atkinson has failed to carry through important programs, probably because Atkinson has felt that by submitting to the demands, he would cause the tax rate to climb...
...FACE is long, sallow and melancholy, but when it is animated, his dark eyes flash, even his long, straight nose quivers, and the high-arched eyebrows, raised in perpetual astonishment at the world, climb yet higher. His grey hair and mustache seem to hold together the various parts of his face that might otherwise fly off into the corners of the room. But when the judge is pensive, his whole person droops into downcast repose-except for the eyebrows. When he is annoyed, his face never comes to life with sudden anger; it freezes. When at last he speaks...