Word: climbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...return trip was more difficult. Hicks found that he could not climb up the rope as easily as down. Leaving his boots downstairs, he sneaked up into bed quickly; he would wake up before his family and take away the boots. But he overslept, and when he came down in the morning his wife was waiting...
...Henri Le Gay, the port director of Rouen, likes to climb the hill north of his city on clear days and look down on the port. Last summer he took some Americans to the top of his hill and told them that "without your aid, we could never have rebuilt this city...
Adams was ahead all the way as it beat Leverett, 37 to 28, to climb into fourth place in the "A" league. Leverett dropped to sixth...
...soldiers were lost in winter maneuvers on the snow-covered slopes of Mount Hakkota, and the Japanese Minister to Sweden rushed a shipment of Swedish skiing equipment back to his native land for rescue work. In the succeeding decades, the Japanese began to get the hang of the herringbone climb and the Christiania turn, and skiing became one of Japan's top winter sports. Last week, Japan's skiers staged a big two-day national ski meet. The ski-happy Japanese hauled 50 freight cars full of fresh snow out of chilly northern Niigata and, as shown here...
...counters. The Gold Coasters blew an early ten point lead, but managed to stay in front in the second half. The final score was 29 to 26. Winthrop and Dudley fought it out for the B league basement in a slow defensive game, with Winthrop managing to climb out of its seventh place slot on a 24 to 10 victory...