Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...upperclassmen I told them that we have a long road to climb," said Harvard Coach Ronn Tomassoni at the end of last season. "We're not satisfied by any means with finishing eighth. This is not somewhere we want our program...
...facility. Shortly after Rhoda Johnson moved into Room 52 of the nursing home in 1992, her daughter Ila Swan became concerned about her care. Swan, a 57-year-old former telephone worker, says her anxiety grew when she saw a woman in Room 51, across the hall, try to climb out of bed after her calls for a nurse went unanswered for an hour. According to the woman's roommate, as the woman struggled to get out of the bed, she toppled and struck her head on the tile floor. She lay there for 20 minutes, her cries for help...
...patriotic heart must swell. Dirk Diggler reminds us that the American dream is no longer about hard work aided by a bit of good fortune. It's about rising on the wings of mediocrity and claims of entitlement. It's about gratifying those in the position to facilitate your climb, a widespread sort of prostitution euphemistically described as "selling yourself." Those who doubt my claims might consider the ostensibly merit-based recruiting season and ask themselves if Dirk really went much farther than some inspiring investment bankers would if that plum job at Goldman Sachs was on the line...
During the winter, when each of the three steam pipes hits 430 degrees, the temperature in some parts of the tunnels can climb past 100 degrees...
...beauty of the Jaipur foot is its lightness and mobility--those who wear it can run, climb trees and pedal bicycles--and its low price. While a prosthesis for a similar level of amputation can cost several thousand dollars in the U.S., the Jaipur foot costs only $28 in India. Sublimely low-tech, it is made of rubber (mostly), wood and aluminum and can be assembled with local materials. In Afghanistan craftsmen hammer the foot together out of spent artillery shells. In Cambodia, where roughly 1 out of every 380 people is a war amputee, part of the foot...