Word: climbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years, as Princess Elizabeth, she never had a bathroom of her own. When a bath was installed for her, the bath was so pokey that she had to climb into it from the back...
...while he was neither ready to help Fanfani nor to climb down one bit from his neutralist foreign policy, Nenni was ready at last to break his formal "unity of action" pact with the Reds. Over stormy protests from pro-Communist members of the party, the delegates voted by a 3-to-2 margin to end the "popular front" electoral alliance with the Communists. Cooperation with the Reds will continue in trade unions, local governments and cooperatives. At the moment, this amounted to not much of a break for Nenni, and none at all for Fanfani...
...them into the hills. For his 1957 interview with New York Timesman Herbert Matthews, Castro made a dangerous trip to the foothills, got invaluable publicity from the U.S.'s most prestigious paper. Other reporters, getting past army checkpoints as "engineer" or "sugar planter," had to make an arduous climb, but they were rewarded with long, friendly chats. To oblige CBS, the rebels took in 160 lbs. of television equipment. One big-paper correspondent on his way up was crestfallen to discover a reporter from Boy's Life on his way down...
...Mars, whose orbit is outside the earth's, the spaceship must climb up the side of the sun's gravitational pit-by speeding up. To reach Venus it must climb down-by slowing down...
Late each afternoon, villagers of tiny Beutelsbach (pop. 900), in Germany's Rems valley climb the twisting road to the hedge-bound estate of Landgut Burg. Their hosts, American undergraduates studying at Stanford University's experimental overseas branch, serve coffee and kuchen, talk exuberantly in often sprained, sometimes fractured, German. Last week Beutelsbachers were greeting a new batch of Stanford students, the second to arrive in Germany since the 30-acre campus was opened last summer...