Word: daedalian
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...been having the same doubts as the rest of the team. On that arduous climb to camp through the Khumbu Icefall, Erik wondered for the first time if his attempt to become the first sightless person to summit Mount Everest was a colossal mistake, an act of Daedalian hubris for which he would be punished. There are so many ways to die on that mountain, spanning the spectacular (fall through an ice shelf into a crevasse, get waylaid by an avalanche, develop cerebral edema from lack of oxygen and have your brain literally swell out of your skull...
...been having the same doubts as the rest of the team. On that arduous climb to camp through the Khumbu Icefall, Erik wondered for the first time if his attempt to become the first sightless person to summit Mount Everest was a colossal mistake, an act of Daedalian hubris for which he would be punished. There are so many ways to die on that mountain, spanning the spectacular (fall through an ice shelf into a crevasse, get waylaid by an avalanche, develop cerebral edema from lack of oxygen and have your brain literally swell out of your skull...
...Pentagon ceremony in Washington, Air Force Chief of Staff Hoyt S. Vandenborg had a prize for General Curtis LeMay and his Strategic Air Command: the Daedalian Trophy for 1951, awarded each year to the command with the fewest aircraft accidents in at least 100,000 hours of flying...
...dearest sentiments--a community which already has sent the shades of ancient horsecars and the good old days to perdition with garish, glaring lights; a community which demands in the Harvard Square station, of all demands that might have been made, an escalator. Think of rising from a Daedalian subterranean labyrinth through the jaws of Hadrian's tomb into the doors of College House--by an escalator. It is an insult to antiquity...
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