Word: climbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assumed that they were the reinforcements. Not until the newcomers were almost on top of the U.S. foxholes did the G.I.s realize their mistake: the men were heavily armed Red troops. Seeing his men outnumbered 10 to 1, the lieutenant in charge of the platoon ordered the G.I.s to climb out of their holes with their hands...
...deeply felt, typically American faith that though it wouldn't be easy, the U.S. would somehow climb out of this hole. No one was eager for war; it would be harder to go than last time-jobs were better, bank accounts bigger, cars were never newer, and the U.S. knew (partly) what war meant. Veterans said resignedly: "If they want me, they know where to find me." But there was no suggestion that Korea was far away and none of our business. The U.S. citizen, who had had to be told that Hitler was a threat, didn...
...tenth lap was quiet enough (the French won it), but as the cyclists began the eleventh-lap climb into the Pyrenees, name calling turned to violence. Bartali, fighting for the lead, was knocked from his bike by a boisterous Frenchman, crashed into a heap with three other cyclists. French police restored order temporarily as Bartali remounted, but his teammates behind were pelted with stones and tomatoes when they pumped to the scene. Farther on, Bartali was nearly edged over a precipice by a speeding car. He won the lap, but he had had enough. He withdrew from the race...
...which seemed most likely to feel the first cutbacks in civilian production (notably television) made little headway. The big demand was for shares of aircraft, oil, steel, railroad, rubber and other industries likely to get war orders. The railroads, which had lagged far behind the peacetime market's climb, chalked up a gain of 5.08 points in the Dow-Jones rail average, closed at 59.46, the highest mark since the big post-election break...
...spoof of the kind of swashbuckling gymnastics that made Douglas Fairbanks famous, the movie is built around a tumbling act. Feebly disguised as a band of gay rogues in 12th Century Lombardy, Lancaster and some old circus associates swing from chandeliers, draperies and trapezes, drop from trees and balconies, climb ropes and poles and all over each other...