Word: climbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been to preside over a controlled thawing of the freeze, to iron out inequities and build an overall system of controls that will keep prices from soaring through the roof. He does not pretend that any order he issues now can stop prices from rising still higher. They will climb at least another 5% o 6, Di Salle admits...
...Climb the Stairs. Perón, who had spent hours in private talks with Miller on his last visit, all but refused to see him this time. He met Miller only in the presence of eight or more aides. Miller never got a chance to tell Perón what the U.S. thought of the suppression of La Prensa...
...learned a long, bitter lesson. It was learned before at Kasserine Pass-you must dominate the heights before you can operate in the valleys. We have neglected that principle at times and have paid through the nose. Perhaps it was because we are lazy; it is hard work to climb those hills-I've climbed them. But we have made a phased advance, with coordination between units, leaving no hostile hill masses between them. Working behind the air and artillery, the infantry has gone in and killed the enemy in their foxholes...
Ridgway is a man of formidable energy. In Africa during World War II, he would go out evenings and scan the horizon. Anyone who wandered near would be accosted with, "Look at that peak. Let's climb it." And off the general and the unfortunate would go. His aides used to duck into the nearest tent when the general came out to scan the evening sky. At home he plays deck tennis, handball, likes camping and hunting. In Korea he gets most of his exercise by walking. Sometimes, to channel some of his physical energy, he climbs a hill...
...Climb the Highest Mountain (20th Century-Fox), the sentimental story of a circuit-riding parson in a 1910 Georgia town, is made out of the same cloth as Stars in My Crown (TIME, Jan. 8). A narrator's voice strings together a rambling account of rural joys, sorrows, faith; some of the incidents and characters (e.g., an epidemic, a greedy general-storekeeper) directly parallel the earlier movie, and again they are all designed to warm the heart...