Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them, an imposing array of two intersecting squares, is specially designed to listen for "whistlers," the strange, low-frequency radio signals that strike down from outside the atmosphere. Most whistlers heard in the Antarctic are believed to originate in lightning flashes in the northern hemisphere. The radio waves apparently climb thousands of miles into the fringes of the ionosphere, guided by the earth's magnetic field; then they curve down again to hit a "coordinate point" in the southern hemisphere...
...will take up a regimen that begins daily at 7 a.m. with a cold shower followed by an empty-stomach sprint around the school grounds. Along with Gordonstoun's 400 other boys, among them the scholarship sons of dockers and fishermen, he will chop wood, build pigsties, sail, climb cliffs. The staple food is boiled potatoes at lunch and supper, and the school insists on "N.E.B.M." (no eating between meals). Average Scholar Charles will probably take the classroom work in stride, for Gordonstoun does not pretend to great academic excellence. Instead, it wants to give a boy "the ability...
Algiers, once one of the most beautiful of cities, is becoming the ugliest. To the casual eye, there is no change. The square white houses still climb on each other's shoulders up to the wooded heights. In the Moslem quarter, the casbah's tunneled alleys are filled with turbaned men and neat-stepping donkeys burdened with panniers. Beneath the leafy shade of the Forum and along the Rue Michelet in the European district stroll some of the loveliest girls in the world, giggling and gossiping as if they were not a step away from a daily round of slaughter...
...climb was costly. The Chandlers had sunk some $20 million in what, for all its circulation growth, was still a losing proposition. Advertising income remained low, and after touching its 1958 circulation high water mark, the Mirror began to sink. Beginning in 1957, the Chandlers brought in a new editorial team, whose chief instructions were to cut costs on the Mirror and conduct a holding operation. The new management was not successful: of late, the Mirror has been losing money at the rate of $2,000,000 a year...
...language dear to the canny winegrowers of Burgundy, they foresee a good year but not a great one. Almost all hands predict that the gross national product will rise this year from $521 billion to somewhere around $560 billion, an increase of 7%. The industrial production index should climb from its recession low of 102 in February last year to better than 120 by year's end. And forecasters have the comforting conviction that consumer prices will probably inch upward by only 1%, meaning that 1962's growth would be real rather than inflationary (see chart...