Word: path
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mountain heard the terrifying rumble that signals an avalanche. Before they could take cover, it smashed down upon them, sweeping away five Americans, including Everett, and two Sherpa porters. The eighth man, Louis F. Reichardt, 27, of Palo Alto, Calif., was out of the slide's path and survived. He spent the next several hours searching for his companions. Late in the week, not a trace had been found. It was the worst mountaineering disaster in Nepal's history...
...last rescued by and reunited with boys, who in her absence has achieved hard-earned success and learned humility into the bargain; and (c) beautiful girl loves no one but herself, isn't even sure about that, abandons, faithful beau on a whim, travels a long a lonely path that leads her back to the boy who has loved her all along...
...mile-long sector held by troops of the U.S. 2nd (Indianhead) Division lies athwart the probable path of any infantry thrust at Seoul. "There they are, right in the way if the bastards decide to come on over," says an American colonel at the headquarters of the U.S.-U.N. military mission. "Once something starts, we are at war. We will have no time to ask whether we want to be in this war at this time, because American troops are going to be fighting for their lives." It has been argued that the G.I.s should be replaced by South Korean...
...when Van de Kamp started a concentrated search for these unseen companions, he and his assistants began to photograph at regular intervals some 40 of the stars closest to the earth, plotting their paths and looking for wobbles. They devoted most of their attention to Barnard's star because it is the closest star visible in the Northern Hemisphere and moves across the sky ; rapidly in relation to the distant "fixed" stars, making it relatively easy for astronomers to trace its path. "We concentrated and gambled on one object," i says Van de Kamp. "It was one of those...
Stubborn indeed. It was not until 1956 and thousands of photographic plates later that Van de Kamp was able to distinguish a significant disturbance in the path of Barnard's star. And it was not until 1963 that he had analyzed his results carefully enough to announce that a planet-sized object rather than a dim star was orbiting Barnard. "I wanted to tread slowly," he explains. "The Zeitgeist-the spirit of the time-had to be just right...