Word: rammed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Maki's men were still picking their way back to Katmandu when news of their success drifted back to New Delhi. There, veteran climbers were frankly envious and just a little sad to see another peak conquered. Said Ram Rahul, climbing companion of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Douglas: "The big conquests are all but over. Before we know it. American Express will be running tourists up to the top of every Himalayan peak just to have a look...
...Canada Pipe Lines, Ltd. to build a natural-gas pipeline from Alberta to eastern Canada (TIME, May 21). Not only was the loan itself unpopular, because of growing Canadian concern about U.S. investors' control of national resources, but the heavy-handed way in which the Liberals attempted to ram the measure through Parliament stirred up the entire country. As soon as Trade & Commerce Minister C. D. Howe introduced it to Parliament, he immediately announced that he would enforce closure of the debate within 48 hours...
...Diego's 15-story, hilltop El Cortez Hotel, overlooking San Diego Bay, has been fitted with a $100,000 Plexiglas-walled cab that travels up the outside of the building. Built by Glass Elevator Corp. of San Diego, the transparent 16-passenger elevator rides on a hydraulic steel ram 16 inches in diameter and 175 feet long. It starts its upward journey in the hotel lobby, emerges through the second-floor roof above the building's setback, then heads for the 12th-and 15th-floor restaurants. Glass Elevator Corp., which has already lined up other potential customers, says...
...change, I think your March 26 article on the South is fair and gives both sides. Heretofore, you have apparently made a studied effort to glorify the Negro and help ram him down the throats of white Southerners as their social equal...
Terrier. A small, solid-fuel antiaircraft missile, it is already installed on missile ships. Its range is short, and it will probably be replaced by the Tales, a rocket-ram-jet bird...