Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...growth. Daimler produces twelve basic trucks in more than 100 different styles, including a highly successful utility vehicle with a science-fiction name and capabilities: the Unimog. This ungainly, versatile product is one of Daimler's biggest sellers; it can be used to cut roses, bore shafts, or climb 70° slopes, is the transportation for the first motorized west-to-east expedition across the wide part of Africa, now underway. To sell its buses, which range from a ten-passenger miniature to a 180-passenger monster, Daimler has developed a "people-to-people" campaign aimed at developing nations...
Last week the Investment Company Institute predicted that fund sales, after setting records for five months in a row, will climb 32% this year to an all-time record of $3.25 billion-10% above the old peak set in the 1961 bull stock market. The dollar volume of shares cashed in by investors has dropped from 61% of sales last year to 52% since June, indicating that the public is once again beginning to view the funds with favor...
...Bowdoin manages an upset tonight, Harvard will have little chance to climb back to the 500 mark. Next Wednesday the Crimson hosts Boston University, considered the best team in the East this season by a majority of Eastern hockey coaches. Then comes Army, who shellacked Harvard 5-1 last winter, and Brown, who has lost almost no one through graduation since splitting two close games with the Crimson last season...
...President's head, and he slumped noticeably to his left. Mrs. Kennedy had jumped up from the seat and was, it appeared to me, reaching for something coming off the right rear bumper of the car, the right rear tail, when she noticed that I was trying to climb...
...Nichols play is a busy, gymnastic comedy of the absurd. Characters grunt and wheeze, climb stairs, assemble rusty iron beds, ride motor scooters, lose their pants, leap off bridges, throw knives. But the procession of sight gags only emphasizes the drift of the dialogue, supporting and not replacing the language of the playwright. As he approaches character from several directions, Nichols apparently feels particularly comfortable in a tenor of intelligent slapstick...