Word: slope
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these visits is an invitation to assassins, and two attempts on the President's life have been made on the route between Paris and Colombey. De Gaulle is still the despair of his security staff. His personal bodyguard consists of only two "gorillas," whose shoulders seem to slope down from their ears. But dark blue police vans are positioned on side streets around the Elysée Palace, and apartments above the chic shops along the Rue du Faubourg St. Honore facing the palace are periodically searched. When De Gaulle is at Colombey, up to 100 gendarmes are sometimes...
...Chinese thrust came after a ten-day lull in the fighting and was apparently aimed at driving down the Luhit River valley toward India's important oil fields at Digboi, 90 miles from Walong, in the North East Frontier Agency. The Chinese seized a mountain slope above Walong, but Indian troops "went into an attack and cleared this position, throwing back the Chinese aggressors...
...began gathering, like a Greek chorus, to watch the tragedy unfold. When the four men appeared to be moving too slowly to make the top, rescuers were alerted. Improvising as best they could, the rescuers began an ordeal as harrowing as that of the climbers. They struggled up the slope with heavy equipment. Some of them fell into deep crevasses along the way, seriously injured. By this time both Germans had fallen to their deaths; Corti and Longhi were stranded on different ledges on the wall. Securing a winch to the ice on the razor-thin summit, the rescuers lowered...
...have made a second-rate Hollywood puff merchant blush. Around the world, Soviet embassy officials peddled prepared picture layouts that showed the two cosmonauts with their families, and at play, wearing brief swimming trunks at a Russian beach resort. There were pictures of the two lolling on a grassy slope, riding a pedal boat, and even one of Nikolayev sniffing poppies. Handouts emphasized the human touch; the releases said that Popovich had christened his booster rocket Lastochka (The Swallow) and that Nikolayev had asked the ground station for the latest soccer scores. It was made known that Nikolayev...
...Handling this company is like skiing." mused Culligan. "If you are standing looking down a great slope, as an experienced skier, there is nothing to it. It offers fun, adventure, a chance to use your skills. But if you haven't done it before, the prospect is terrifying. This is the fourth time I've attempted this kind of thing. In many respects, the other slopes were much tougher." How are things on the hazardous Curtis slope six weeks after Culligan started at the top? Going great, he says. In spite of a $4,000,000 loss...