Word: climbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...help himself up the long climb Dizzy married a society widow for her money. "An excellent creature," he said of her, "but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans." He came to love her so devotedly that he once paid her a supreme compliment: "Why, my dear, you are more like a mistress than a wife." She said of him: "Dizzy has the most wonderful moral courage, but no physical courage. When he has his shower bath, I always have to pull the string...
Last month a twelve-man Belgian-French cave-exploring team went back to Basses-Pyrénées, made the long, hard climb from Licq-Athérey to Lépineux's discovery. They brought climbing ladders, cement to secure loose rock in the side of the chimney, and a windlass to lower the explorers into the unknown. Expedition Chief Max Cosyns, a Belgian nuclear physicist who goes after spelunking records on the side, estimated the chimney's depth by timing the echo from rocks that ricocheted off the limestone walls. The explorers were looking...
...Yakovlev). Rocket-powered, swept-wing interceptor, still in research stage. Speed, about 850 m.p.h.; rate of climb, 16,000 ft. a min.; endurance, less than 5 min.; armament, unknown, possibly four cannon in nose or rockets...
...Lavochkin). Twin-jet night fighter carrying pilot and radarman. Speed, about 570 m.p.h.; rate of climb, unknown; ceiling, unknown; range, about 2,200 miles; armament, two nose-mounted 32-mm. cannon plus two 12.7-mm. machine guns. Russia's No. 1 night fighter. Production limited, but being stepped...
...saucers-all of them shaped like silver dollars. Never before had the industry seen such a prosperous year. In the first five months of 1951, the 15 biggest carriers revved up an operating net income of $42 million v. $4,100,000 in the same 1950 period*-a vertical climb...