Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...challenge of the peaks. A fortnight ago, just after dawn, he climbed out of an automobile at the summit of Washington's crag-hung Snoqualmie Pass. He slipped on his pack, snapped on his skis and, with two teen-age pals behind him, set off on an overnight climb to Snow -Lake in the untracked high Cascades. The boys toiled steadily; by half past twelve they had passed through a draw at 4,200 feet and were beginning the last, long climb to the lake where they planned to camp...
Much of the ballad public, with a passion for oversimplification, prefers to believe that Rosemary Clooney was created overnight by one record, an Armenian-American calypso called Come On-a My House ("I'm gonna give-a you everything . . ."). Come On-a My House did make the public Clooney-conscious. Whipped up by Author William Saroyan and his cousin Ross Bagdasarian on a cross-country automobile junket more than ten years before-and purposely patterned after ancient Armenian folk songs-Come On-a went nowhere until Clooney's recording. Then it leaped from the ranks of the mere...
...overnight hit with her subjects...
Bargain. In Miami, Okla., while helping arrange merchandise for a church rummage sale, Mrs. Maude Jones forgetfully left her red purse containing $20 on the counter overnight, learned the next morning when she arrived to pick it up that the sale was already under way and someone had bought...
...overnight glow of happiness seems to have uplifted the proponents of college hockey in this area, with the announcement that Governor Christian A. Herter has asked the legislature to authorize purchase of the Boston Arena...