Word: rested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dunn's party had a typically tough time. The all-Harvard group chopped staircases into ice cliffs, climbed skyline ridges, and waded through glacial streams for six days only to have snow and rain force them into their mountain tents for the rest of their stay...
...rest of their story sounds like a Pearl White thriller. When the group woke up in the morning they were covered with three inches of snow, and spent most of the day edging down the face. Then they started on the road back home--a seven-mile ice field called the Illecilliwaet Neve--through a blinding snowstorm and with only two cans of Spam and a handful of prunes for food. They were on it for 28 hours, and just had enough strength to effect rescue when one of the students fell twenty feet into a crevasse...
...another-inch-wide ledge; he jams his fist into a crack for a hold fast. From the top of the cliff another mountaineer, who has gone up the sane way, "belays" the climber with nylon rope in case he should fall. From the bottom of the cliff the rest of the party offers verbal encouragement...
...Hanover, Pa., Hanover Craftsmen, Inc. announced a special chair for televiewers. Modeled after an old English cockfight chair, it is built so that a man can straddle it, rest his elbows on the back and put his drink (or dark glasses) on a built-in dropleaf tray. Women can sidesaddle. Price: $95 and up, depending on the upholstery...
Ellen never comes to his call, and the rest of the castle staff, all of whom are English except Paddy, the silent peacock-keeper, are mostly too preoccupied to comfort the dying man. For World War II has started and these English men & women are nervous exiles in a neutral but silently hostile land, half relieved, half ashamed when they think of what they are escaping...