Word: climbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Installation of a sign-in desk system for bringing in female guests marked another step in Claverly's climb toward a dignity on a par with that of the Houses, some felt last night...
...Cabinet and persuaded Pella to come back. In Parliament, a rightist deputy once insisted that if he would allow a little more inflation, workers' wages also would rise. "Yes," replied Pella, "But the trouble is that prices will go up by the elevator, while wages will have to climb the stairs...
Embrasse (Felicia Sanders; Columbia). A semi-French invitation to give the girl a great big kiss. Sung by up-and-coming Songstress Sanders (TIME, Aug. 3), it should climb well up bestseller lists...
...worked alongside non-unionists. Flint's old (78) Charles Stewart Mott, a multimillionaire director of (and once the largest single stockholder in) General Motors, came wearing a carpenter's apron and carrying his own hammer and nails. He was furious when a foreman refused to let him climb a ladder to nail roofing. "They think I'm too old," he stormed. "That's all nonsense. I can outwork half these guys, and I'm as handy with a hammer as the next...
Violinist Yehudi Menuhin took time out from a punishing European concert tour to climb Switzerland's 9,757-ft. Mt. Schilthorn. delighted his wife and companions after the six-hour ascent by standing on his head at the peak and running through his yoga exercises...