Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been the bitterest fighting and the most gallant fighting I have ever seen," said Colonel James Adams of Monterey, Calif. "We've tried every approach to that mountain, we've crawled up every finger of the ridge. That's right-crawled. You can't climb up it. It's like a razor. There haven't been any prisoners taken by either side on top of that mountain...
...children were launched on a new term, the work year stretched ahead. Men took deep breaths and set their jaws; women made their small decisions on the family budget. The decisions were easier this year. During the year, U.S. families had nearly doubled their savings, and the price climb was expected to slow down. Early mornings and even Sundays were loud with the sound of carpenters' hammers as builders rushed new apartments to completion in the good weather. Personal income was the highest ever, unemployment at a postwar ebb. Nevertheless, at Chicago's Harbor Light on Skid...
...front, U.S. Marines pulled off military history's first airborne operation by helicopters. It was necessary to post a battle-ready reconnaissance company on top of a 3,800-ft. peak. The height was not defended by Reds, but if the marines had made the grueling two-day climb on foot, toting their gear, they would have been too bushed to fight off possible counterattacks. Six big Sikorsky HR51 helicopters, hugging the valleys to avoid enemy fire, reached the peak and, one after another, hovered 8 ft. above its top. The first marines scrambled down knotted ropes and quickly...
...profession thus includes many persons who have experienced a definite rise in class and status position and who in making the climb are more likely, as Logan Wilson has put it, to have acquired 'the intellectual than the social graces.' It also includes people of ... 'a generally philistine style of life...
This deficit was not expected, and occurred because the H.A.A. went $300,000 into the red. There is no answer yet to the athletics deficit problem, and meanwhile other University costs have continued to climb...