Word: climbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...butter, now owns 88,623,288 lbs., worth nearly $60 million, and is now buying butter under the support plan at the rate of a million pounds a day. The U.S. buttery will continue to swell under the new Benson order. Some experts predict that federal butter holdings may climb to half a billion pounds by midsummer...
...races over the snow, and they wouldn't trade them for all the flamingos at Miami's Hialeah. Their cutter is usually an old, lightweight sleigh stripped of its seats and fitted with polished steel runners. The ranchers hook their cutters to a pair of fast horses, climb aboard, and light out full tilt down a quarter-mile straightaway of hard-packed snow. Some drivers sit on old orange crates, others stand Ben Hur fashion. Speed, not style is what counts...
...proposal for the octagonal league was vetoed twice, once by Princeton. Since then, Boston officials have been trying to start the league, while Ivy officials have sat back and waited for the three to climb the Ivy. But representatives of the three schools said over the weekend that they would be glad to petition for entry into the Pentagonal League...
Keith Jacobsen became a husky 17-year-old who lived, like many of his friends, for little but the challenge of the peaks. A fortnight ago, just after dawn, he climbed out of an automobile at the summit of Washington's crag-hung Snoqualmie Pass. He slipped on his pack, snapped on his skis and, with two teen-age pals behind him, set off on an overnight climb to Snow -Lake in the untracked high Cascades. The boys toiled steadily; by half past twelve they had passed through a draw at 4,200 feet and were beginning the last...
When practical people asked George Mallory why he wanted to climb Mt. Everest, the Englishman answered; "Because it is there." French Naval Captain Jacques Y. Cousteau is a man similarly obsessed; his obsession, however, is with the depths...