Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...movie industry as a whole which certainly tried to live up to its promise of 1950--the year when movies had hit an all-time low--that movies would be better than ever. Spurred by the competition of television, more imagined than real, the big studios attempted to climb out of their ruts of plot, technique, and star systems and did succeed in producing some acceptable film...
...with rising incomes there will be more money available than goods & services to spend it on, i.e., an "inflationary gap" of about $12 billion. Last year's high saving was abnormal, and such trends are quickly reversed. A return to normal could start prices climbing as hard goods grow scarce. Moreover, the price climb will be accelerated if the present uneasy balance between prices & wages is upset by a big new round of wage boosts...
...explorer's legend cropped up again last week-the "Abominable Snowmen" of the Himalayas. Reporting on his sixth expedition to Mt. Everest, British Explorer Eric Shipton described in the London Times a hard, four-day climb to a great glacier near the high peak of Menlungtse. There, in the thin snow, he found the well-marked footprints of a strange, four-toed creature. Sen Tensing, the native guide, identified the tracks as the spoor of two "Yetis"-the same weird ogres first reported by an Everest expedition of 30 years...
According to awestruck natives, the Abominable Snowmen are half-man, half-beast. They have toes at the heels of their feet to help them climb and they live on human flesh, with an occasional yak thrown in. Their long matted hair falls over their eyes when they run downhill. The female is as deadly as the male, but is hampered by huge, pendulous breasts that she tosses over her shoulders when she wants to move in a hurry...
Spiraling in the violent updrafts of the thunderhead, his ship was quickly smothered in grey, impenetrable fog. Rain lashed at the canopy. The outside air temperature dropped. Comte continued to circle, nose down, while his plane climbed faster and faster-like a man moving upstairs while strolling slowly downward on a racing escalator. At 11,000 ft. the rain turned to hail that tore noisily at the wings. The airspeed indicator froze, and the rate-of-climb indicator stuck at 5 ft. per second. The needle of the glider's sealed barograph reached its limit...