Word: climbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...started. When glaciers crept down a million years ago, chilling the climate, the ape men walked upright to keep their hands out of the snow. Their brains got more blood and grew bigger. Then the ape men, according to the Britton theory, started the long intellectual climb that turned them into...
...Climb to Power. When his friend Winston Churchill came to power, Macmillan, at 46, at last got his first post, No. 2 in the Ministry of Supply. Two years later, he was in North Africa as Churchill's Minister Resident and political troubleshooter. There he helped negotiate the settlement between France's Generals de Gaulle and Giraud, and became a good friend of Lieut. General Dwight Eisenhower. With his "American connection," and acquaintanceships begun in North Africa, he feels a confident ease about relations with Washington. "We have been through it all together before," says Macmillan...
...train stops at Kendall 5 minutes and 11 seconds after the passenger enters the kiosk. From Kendall it takes only 1:44 to get to Charles Street Station, and then only 1:16 to Park Street. After leaving the car it takes the average city-dweller 40 seconds to climb to the street...
...Williams' great gifts, as it is part of Director Kazan's genius. But perhaps their constant dual reliance on so galvanic but gaudy a virtue finally turns it into something of a vice. The play, in exchange for abounding in theatrical trapdoors, loses the slow, relentless, staircase-climb of drama. Too much explodes, too little uncoils; much more is highlighted than truly plumbed. There is no law that the more sick and tormented the subject matter, the more severe should be the approach; but even most of Elizabethan drama, for all its blaze of poetry, foundered from...
...Government charges that IBM restrains trade through its 1,500 patents and by the fact that it leases its accounting machines instead of selling them. Nevertheless, President Tom Watson Jr. intends to keep on expanding at top speed. By 1960 he confidently expects IBM's sales to climb over the magic $1 billion figure...