Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...again became the main topic of conversation in pubs, clubs, offices, busses and homes, on the old basis of ril-listen-to-your-bomb-if-you'11-listen-to-mine. There was the new tale of a German airman who parachuted from his crippled bomber, then had to hike seven miles, trying at an inn and three villages before he could get someone to capture him. There was the heartbreaking story of the big London distillery that took a hit and the stock of gin that was lost...
Things that leave us cold: Last Wednesday's hike, Nooyer's Eve a la Harvard, strength tests. . . It slays us when: W. P. Hughes goes into his dance; "Bull" Holiday dons his cheaters; Hagg boards his mine-sweep; McCarthy takes over Section...
Through the Wilds. Having failed at the two easiest careers he could think of ("I have been through an amazing amount of work, but my instincts are essentially restful"), he married a Manhattan sculptress and turned explorer-complete with full beard, a concession to a 600-mile hike through the Cameroons. Before his wife died, twelve years later, he had visited some 70 countries and commented on his travels (Black Majesty, Tom-Tom, Dark Islands...
Washington was all but newsless. Members of the strong, independent International Typographical Union did not go to work Monday morning. They did not formally strike; they called a meeting; voted to remain in continuous session. Their demand: a $1.33 a day pay hike...
...Collett Dent, have been pitching thunderbolts, helping arouse the public until Parliament is cornered. A reform program, presented to Parliament by the head of the Board of Education, would use the first seven postwar years to create a system costing ?67,400,000 more annually, a more than 50% hike in the British education budget. Some proposed reforms...