Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...practice ice climbing during the vacation, operating from their base cabin on the flank of Mt. Washington. The H.M.C. cabin is reached by driving to Pinkham Notch, halfway between North Conway and Gorham, N. H. and then climbing with skins two and a quarter miles up Hoot Spur...
...Boot Spur cabin was built in 1938 by students with the help of an old trapper. Members claim the cabin's bedding facilities will house 24, but add that more can sleep on the somewhat damp ground floor. Since the U. S. Forestry Service requires the door to be always unlocked, many college groups use Boot Spur cabin. The H.M.C., however, asks each visitor to contribute 25 cents to the "kitty...
...championship game, the spur-of-the-moment razzle-dazzle Straus team of John Dunphy, Ted Sexton, Art French, Rog Martin, and Whitey Black met its match after a six-game league winning streak. "They were very slow and seemed in poor condition", was a Lionel comment afterward, as the winners themselves broke out beer supplied by proctor Robert L. Fischelis '49 on the field...
...would say to her, she would talk about something else ... 'Is supper ready, Molly?' [I would ask]. 'I'm going to try using peanut oil instead of olive oil as a base for my salad dressing,' she would say ... So I decided on the spur of the moment I was really going to make her say yes or no. I said: 'Molly, I'm going to punch you in the nose, and I want to know if it hurts.' So I hit her ... All I did was to try and ... get Molly...
...York next week, Acheson will face an emergency meeting of the West's Big Three foreign ministers; he wanted tangible evidence to show the others that the U.S. intended to defend, not merely liberate, Western Europe in case of war. He needed something to spur Britain's Bevin and France's Schuman (see FOREIGN NEWS) into getting busy too. This is what Acheson proposed...