Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shipped out. He made it to New Jersey, where he fell afoul of another stool pigeon. Back he went to Charlestown. Next, he and five others managed to sneak in some guns and build a ladder. The idea was to pin down the lone tower guard with gunfire and climb the ladder over the wall. Everything went as planned, except that at the key moment two of the cons jumped on the ladder and it came crashing down. "This was broad daylight," remembers Green, "and all 300 inmates were watching. It must have been the first break in history with...
...remember that when you said, 'I've got a couple of songs' and you sang 'Let's swim to the Moon, Let's climb through the tide'--That was it--'Okay,' I said, 'that's the greatest thing I ever heard.' That's all it took, just those two lines...
Exterminate or Prostitute? College Negroes nonetheless feel schizophrenic about their climb out of the ghettos into the white world. Somewhat bitterly, a member of Northwestern's new Kappa Alpha Psi Negro fraternity concedes that his goals are "pretty honkie-oriented-the corporation game, suburbia, upper middle-the works." At Wisconsin, Junior Clarence Brown takes a calmer view. "To better yourself is the first thing," he says. "Then you may be able to help others some day." But Graduate Student Brown McGhee scoffs: "Let me tell you how it is, baby. When I get out, I have two choices...
There is something special about the mind of a good lawyer-he does not think as others do. He will not accept easy generalizations nor climb quickly to a conclusion. He prefers, like a mountaineer intent upon a peak, to take the more careful, circuitous route so that he can be surer of his ground. He loves the facts, detests disarray and imprecision, and spends his working hours trying to define life within a framework of the law. He is not born this way; it takes a law school to turn the necessary bent of mind. And for thousands...
...Paris, stock values climbed an average 10% during August, blue chips have gone up by an average 25%, and some (such as Rhone-Poulenc and Michelin) skyrocketed by 40% or more. Yet the French economy remains in the doldrums. Unemployment is high, industrial production is sluggish, and most French businessmen are worried about the July 1, 1968, deadline when disappearing Common Market tariff barriers will expose them to harsher competition. Reasons for the stock climb: Bourse prices simply got so low that they began to look like bargain-basement buys to investors throughout Europe; the French government intervened to inspire...