Word: pose
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even so, it is no weekend hacker's jaunt. Though McKinley does not pose the classic technical challenges of the great Himalayan and Andean peaks, it is nonetheless known for the worst mountain weather in the world. Soar ing 20,320 ft. into the subArctic sky, McKinley is exposed to 150 m.p.h. winds that batter the mountain's upper reaches with sledgehammer blows and are even more fierce than McKinley's 72-below-zero cold...
Most people know that they can get a severe electric shock if they recklessly poke into the back of an operating TV set, where high-voltage components are placed out of harm's way. But until recently, few were aware that the same high voltages may pose a more subtle threat: they can produce X rays that, if improperly shielded, endanger viewers sitting unusually close...
...Powell can be helped by the courts in his struggle to regain his seat. Certainly Congressional precedent, although without the status of law, would have to be taken into account in any Supreme Court judgment. However, a confrontation between the highest judicial and legislative bodies in the nation would pose special difficulties...
...join the Common Market: because it "is not Continental, remains involved with the seas beyond" and "is tied to the United States by all sort of special accords." De Gaulle feels that the British see themselves as a world power rather than as a European power-and would therefore pose a distinct threat to France's current dominance of the Common Market. Letting the British in, he said, would force "the Continentals to renounce forever the making of a Europe that would be European...
Leary, dressed in white, sat in a Buddha-like pose on the stage floor and talked for over an hour on the importance of "flipping out." Behind his head two movies and a slide-show ran simultaneously...