Word: savely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...peaks were shrouded with ominous evidence of storm and fury. Torn between heartache and indignation, the people of Chamonix gazed aloft, muttered about laws to prevent off-season climbing, and gazed hopefully at the local guides, who refused to budge. "Their action was voluntary," said the guides. "Even to save two men, you can't risk the lives of ten or 15 rescuers with wives and children...
...Save Two Men. As long as the weather was bad, it made no difference what anyone said; nobody could have reached the climbers in any case. Two days later, however, when the sky cleared, a Piper Cub, filled with blankets, food and medicine, took off from the French air-force base at Le Fayet, 20 kilometers down the valley. With an Alpine guide aboard to plot the route, the little plane spotted the climbers on a treacherous northern slope close to the edge of a snow cliff that threatened to break away at any minute. The pilot could...
...eight in all, the rescue party had to face a fearful decision: whether to try to drag or carry the half-dead boys up the slopes to the refuge hut or to save themselves by making the ascent alone. They chose to leave the boys behind. Day by day the storms raged about their hut; then at last the angry skies cleared, and two more helicopters whirred over the mountain. In three hazardous trips to the Grand Plateau, 13,126 ft. up on the mountain, the helicopters brought down the stranded men, but the pilot decided that he dare...
Getting together efficiently under one roof will save the State Department more than $2,000,000 a year. But the new building points up the question of how many more blocks of drab modern Washington can take before one of the most beautiful U.S. cities becomes a barracks city of monumental dullness...
Then twice in the next three minutes the Crimson had the puck in front of the B.C. cage, with goalie Alvie Pitts on the ice to the side after making a save: twice an open net, and twice by some miracle no score resulted. This turn of events--the freak B.C. goal and two such narrow misses--would have broken the spirit of many teams...