Word: climbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...High in the Himalayas above the Nepal-Sikkim border, members of an expedition led by Britain's Dr. Charles Evans (a veteran of the Hunt-Hillary climb) remembered their manners and halted a few feet from the summit (28,146 ft.) of Mt. Kanchenjunga to avoid offending local gods. Even so, they earned credit for conquering the world's third highest peak (after Everest, 29,028 ft., and Godwin Austen or K2, 28,250 ft.), the highest mountain until then unclimbed...
...tons, set in March 1953, was topped. No one expected that the industry as a whole could maintain the current operating rate of an estimated 96.3% of capacity. Some time this summer, operations are expected to dip, possibly as low as 80% to 85% of capacity, then climb back in the fall...
...Yell Leader. As a towheaded toddler, Goodie never had to be urged to climb up on a chair and sing or recite for guests. When he reached Manual Arts High School, Goodie swam in his natural element. There was plenty of competition (among his class of 1915: General Jimmy Doolittle, Frank Capra, Lawrence Tibbett, former Lieutenant Governor Buron Fitts), but Goodie rose like a bubble in a glass of beer to the head of the class. He was yell leader, composer of school songs, star of the debating team, an enthusiastic member of the glee club and the dramatic society...
...pamphlets, and papers that fill up the ceiling-high shelves on three sides of the room, overflow on the mammoth desk in the middle, and encumber every available chair with piles of envelopes. At 68, Wolfson can still scramble happily through the debris to look for a book or climb perilously on laden chairs in search of an obscure reprint from the Harvard Theological Review. After a lifetime of research he is considered today the outstanding Judaic scholar in the United States...
...week long, the casualty list among children inoculated with Salk vaccine kept going up, but fortunately the rate of climb was slowed. The U.S. Public Health Service got moving on its promised "re appraisal" of all vaccine so far finished by the manufacturers. By week's end the reappraisal teams were authorizing renewed release of vaccine, and inoculations could resume this week...