Word: geant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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McNear was killed instantly when he lost his balance climbing Dent du Geant --"The Giant's Tooth"--on August 18, six miles, from the famous French peak. His body, and the body of a companion he knocked over in his fall, were recovered and cremated in Italy later in the month...
...party reached a shallow ledge on the almost-vertical face of Dent du Geant. While the other three waited below, McNear continued up the face and hammered a thin piton--a metal spike commonly used by mountain-climbers for support--into a crack in the granite rock. Then he fastened his rope to the piton and continued up the wall...
...year of victory and threatening peace, the poets were not up to much. The biggest news was made by two soldier-poets, Frenchman Louis Aragon, and Ser geant Karl Shapiro...
This Is the Army (Irving Berlin, Ser geant Joe Louis; TIME...
Johnny dies-on Christmas day, of course-in time to allow Katie (from whose beauty the bloom has not been rubbed by years of scrubbing tenement hallways) to marry long-suffering Ser geant McShane, whose invalid wife also conveniently expires. Francie, as the book ends, gets to college, thanks to McShane's $10,000 a year (he has become a Tammany Assemblyman...