Word: climbing
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...story buildings--more than 2 billion lbs. of steel and glass and concrete--compressed into a mound nine stories high. A five-fingered grapple fixed to the end of a 40-ft. metal arm peels back each layer, gently removing crisscrossed pillars piled like giant pickup sticks. Next welders climb up with acetylene torches to cut through the metal until they find a void, or pocket of air. Then they bring in the buckets...
Robbason was struck by the reems of copier paper blowing around and countless rolls of toilet paper falling like streamers. He saw what he thought were pieces of a building dropping to the ground but then realized they were people. One person trying to climb from one room into another was clinging onto the building before he lost his grip and fell...
...spent the summer working for The Family Van, a healthcare center on wheels serving Boston’s under-served in Dorchester, Mattapan and Roxbury. Day after day, men and women would climb in and out of the van for various tests and counseling. One of our mandatory questions, “How many children do you care for under the age of 18?”, would reveal young parents with a gaggle of children; a pregnancy test would reveal another on the way. These men and women were stressed out from the double whammy of poverty and parenthood...
...Manser separated from two Penan acquaintances near the base of the mountain, saying he would climb it alone. With just a few days of walking, he would have been reunited with his closest Penan friends. But Manser never made that hike. After he was left near Batu Lawi, he was never seen again...
...Finally, the two men parted and Manser headed for Sarawak. His first intended stop: the holy mountain of Batu Lawi. After failing to climb it the first time, he told friends, he was determined to reach the summit...