Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Berlin, there were crowds of people . . . people pushing at me their passports or their travel papers to indicate that they lived in the Eastern Sector of Berlin or in the Soviet Sector somewhere, and asking for a word or something, some expression, some chance to talk with me for a moment or two. One old lady saying that this was something she was going to cherish for months and months . . . that she had spoken to me and that I represented America...
...took two days of climbing to reach the 15,000-ft. level on Salcantay's eastern face-and they were immediately snowed in for three days. Six days later, they built a base camp of snowblocks at 17,220 ft. Susan stayed there; the bearded Swiss slogged on for three days to 18,500 ft. and pitched a tent for their high camp. At that rarefied height, the temperature, in the bright sunlight, 122° F.; twelve hours later it fell to -15°. Nevertheless, the climbers toiled on next day, up another 1,300 ft. to a cave...
...Haverford, Pa., just back with the Wimbledon singles championship, 17-year-old Maureen ("Little Mo") Connolly walked off with her third straight Pennsylvania & Eastern States title after losing only eleven games in the entire tournament. Asked about the reported tiff with her coach, Eleanor ("Teach") Tennant, she replied: "I am not mad . . . We had a few words in England over my supposedly sore shoulder that never really bothered me, but we kissed and made up. Teach made me what I am today. She changed my entire game, and she'll be my coach as long as I play tennis...
...Evil Place. The Rudges still did not know who set out the mysterious stones, but they doggedly followed the pudding stone trail across eastern England. At last it took them to Grime's Graves in Norfolk, a dark, fir-grown hollow where Stone Age man from earliest times dug flint with staghorn picks. Norfolk country people shun the spot, and call it "the evil place." But for the Rudges, it was the payoff...
Editor Saunders' biggest cut was the entire last half of the work (barring a few excerpts), which deals with the Eastern Empire centered in Constantinople. Except for a final chapter, the story now closes where Gibbon once intended to end it, with the fall of the Western Empire. Into the basket, too, went nearly all of Gibbon's footnotes, by actual count almost a quarter of the original history. Wherever Editor Saunders had to snip the narrative line, he spliced it together with summaries. His estimate of the final collaboration: "96% Gibbon and 4% Saunders...