Word: slopes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Next morning a snow bridge over a crevasse collapsed silently just as Jim's foot left it, and not long afterwards Jim plunged 40 ft. down an ice slope. By the time the rescue party heard Dave's cry, both men were almost hysterical with exhaustion. Dave was hurried to a Lima hospital, where all his toes had to be amputated; Jim lost parts of three toes...
...slipped & fell on the snowy slope...
...gliding enthusiast must know his sailplane, air, clouds, and the terrain below as well as he knows his own cockpit. Given a steady wind blowing up from sharp-rising, sunbaked ridges, a good glider pilot can soar for hours, executing elongated figure-eights above the ridge's windward slope. He can travel for hundreds of miles, using the character of clouds and of the ground below as his guide to finding the hot radiated updrafts and avoiding the cool downdrafts (see chart). In the great mountain-lifted waves of air that oscillate in the lee of California...
...last January, some men of Company L were trapped in the open near Ponggil-li by heavy machine-gun and mortar fire from a hill above. Corporal Ronald Rosser did not hesitate. With only his carbine and one white phosphorous grenade, he sprinted 100 yards up the steep slope and leaped astride an enemy trench on the heights...
...Five more Communists fell. He threw his grenade into a bunker. Two more enemy soldiers burst out of the smoke. He killed them. He ran back down the hill with bullets kicking the snowy turf around him, got more ammunition, gathered an attacking party and led it up the slope...