Word: climbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...June and July, the cost of living made its steepest two-month climb in eleven years. Going up by one-half of 1% each month, the consumer price index reached 121.5 (using the figure of 100 for the base period 1957-59). On that scale, the average family now pays $12.15 for the same items that cost...
...right mind would climb into an airplane for the first time and try to solo. Hardly anyone over the age of 16 would expect to hop in a car and go off without knowing how to drive. But put a man in a power boat and he becomes the instant mariner. He requires neither operator's license nor the barest acquaintance with navigation or mechanics. All he has to do is punch the starter button and take off, trusting to God and the U.S. Coast Guard...
...weren't serving as Governor," says a friend of Washington's Daniel Jackson Evans, "he probably would go out and climb Mount Everest or sail around the world alone." Challenge is a key word in Dan Evans' vocabulary, to be used with intense, if low-pitched enthusiasm. Guided by the philosophy that "we have to act, not react," Evans has worked to prepare his richly forested state for the inevitable day when it moves "from a scattered open society to an urban society." Surrounded by a profusion of lakes and mountains, the Governor has the foresight to proclaim: "We have...
Statistics cannot express the convulsive reality. The American metropolis seems constantly to be tearing itself down and building itself up again. The din and confusion of building has become a built-in part of the city's confusion. Everywhere old towers crumble, excavations appear, followed by the quick climb of high steel skeletons. They rise straight from the busy city streets, the clusters of trucks, cement mixers and cranes hopelessly aggravating the snarl of traffic. Amid all this there arise new questions about the price of progress...
Youngsters roll on the ground, tussling, teasing each other and gleefully aping their elders. They climb the tropical trees with abandon and plunge happily into cooling water-holding their noses when they dunk. Despite the similarities, the equatorial playground, at the edge of a 12,000-acre forest preserve on Borneo is no boys' camp. It is the Malaysian state of Sabah's experimental center for the rehabilitation of orangutans...