Word: slope
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During storms the party was forced to dig snow caves into the sides of the slope. Though the icy roofs dropped several inches daily, they rarely collapse. To avoid snow slides caused by melting, much of the climbing was done after sunset...
Starting last November, Cuban bulldozers have cleared a network of military access roads, which slope down from the surrounding hills (where Castro observation posts and gun emplacements lurk) right up to Gitmo's 24-mile fence. The mined roads lead 26 miles westward to the home base of a Castro armored pool of 51-ton Stalin tanks and 155-mm., 40-m.p.h. motorized artillery...
Where does a bright boy or girl want to go to college? Something prestigious? A school near a ski-slope? One of those "good, small" places? East? West? A huge, rich state university? Last week the National Merit Scholarship Corp. told what it had learned when it asked 21,000 high school senior boys and 14.000 girls, all in the top 2% of their classes, to name their choices. Results, in order, for boys: Harvard, M.I.T., Stanford, Cal Tech., Yale, University of California at Berkeley, Cornell, Princeton, Columbia, Rice. For girls: Stanford, Radcliffe, Cornell, Wellesley, California at Berkeley, University...
...created a minor sensation wherever she appeared in her new stretch pants. Next year the Bogners sold only 1,000 pairs of the pants, but have since stretched their output, last year sold more than 120,000 all over the world-many to clients who will never see a slope steeper than the spiral ramp of Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum...
...turns firm and foggy. He blamed himself for misreading Red China's intentions, admitted that he had "trusted-'trusted' is perhaps not the right word-thought that the Chinese would not function as they did later." Rejecting Red China's claim to the southern slope of the Himalayas, Nehru won cheers by declaring: "The Himalayas are not only a part of our territory; they are a part of our hearts and mind...