Word: climbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most cogent objection is to the building's location in the heart of San Francisco's "Portsmouth corridor," natural valley between Telegraph Hill and the clustered towers of lower Market Street. The valley is covered with low structures that climb up Telegraph Hill, hugging its contours and accentuating San Francisco's natural rhythm of hills and valleys. It is an area of narrow streets and small lots, and zoning authorities thought they had forestalled any skyscraper-high structure by stipulating that total floor space in new buildings could not exceed 14 times the area of the site...
Considering the care required by the children, the settlements were hardly generous. Richard can walk, run and climb stairs. He can write well with his foot-but not with his artificial right hand. He cannot wash or dress himself, go to the toilet alone or brush his hair. Although he is in school and has an IQ of 124, it is doubtful that he can go on to a university. David is immobile, except for rocking movements, and probably will be unemployable all his life...
Cornell is in deep trouble. They lost 20 lettermen from a 3-6 club, including their backfield and defensive line. Brown and Columbia had stellar freshmen teams last season, and are ready to make the long climb up the ladder, but not this year...
Wayne never did jump from the treadmill. He was lifted off by John Ford, who had become a poker-playing buddy. "I had been friendly with Ford for ten years," recalls Wayne, "and I wanted to get outa these quickie westerns, but I was damned if I was gonna climb on a friend to do it. He came to me with the script of Stagecoach and said, 'Who the hell can play the Ringo Kid?' " It was a part that called for a strong, inarticulate frontiersman vengefully seeking his father's killers. "I said there's only one guy: Lloyd...
...less a climb than a rocket launching. In quick order The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds and other futuristic fantasies made Wells the English Jules Verne. He stirred the minds of his generation to science, the new possibility in their lives, and the paying public rewarded him with possibilities in his own life. Both prophet and audience shared a kind of mutual fulfillment-in Wells' phrase, "possessing joys not promised them at birth...