Word: sloping
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Several weeks ago, hearing the scrape of shovels at night, the ROKs became aware that the enemy was tunneling under Anchor's north slope. By filling the tunnel with men, weapons and ammo, the Reds could launch a close-range attack without warning, then slip back to safety...
Taking pictures on the peak, Herzog saw his only pair of gloves go rolling down the slope for good. Almost immediately his hands were numb. Hurrying down, the two met a pair of waiting colleagues at the 25,300-ft. level, and it seemed that the worst was over, when Lachenal slipped and fell 300 ft. to the ice below. Miraculously, he broke no bones, but he had suffered a concussion, and all four spent a dreadful, storm-whipped night in tiny tents. Going down the next morning, they lost their way. By then, both Herzog's and Lachenal...
...table of bricks. High in the apse, stark against the black salt, he set a 20-ft. cross made of thick, wooden poles. Last week, in preparation for the Christmas service, the miners were putting a finishing touch on their church: a 2,200-ft. tunnel to the mountain slope, which will provide a reassuring pinpoint of daylight for nervous visitors...
...variable-time-fused) shells for airbursts which the gunners hoped would send sharp fragments flying into the enemy ratholes. One clear morning, after Thunder jets and artillery had given the hill a final treatment, the ROKs attacked again, in single and double file, scrambling up a slope covered several inches thick with the dust of battle, kicking up such clouds that they could scarcely see one another...
...absentee book problem could easily be remedied if Widener were more observant. Let the officials look some gray morning at the many students huffing up the slope to Lamont, intent on a single purpose: to escape Lamont's hourly-increasing 50 cent per book fine. That is real incentive...