Word: steep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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North of Quito, an old, worn-out locomotive huffed and puffed its way through steep mountain passes, carrying faithful Quitenos on their annual pilgrimage to the Virgin's upland shrine. Eating, singing and chattering pilgrims jammed the seats and aisles of the ancient wooden coaches, clung to roofs, windows and couplings...
Fighting raged on through Caracas' steep, narrow streets the next day. Pro-Government Communists broke into a local barracks, appropriated guns and uniforms. From a new, six-story housing project they attacked the rebels. Loyal cavalry joined the assault. But rebel planes, swooping low to drop bombs squarely on the attackers, settled the issue...
...After we came out of our mother's body, we began to reach out, little by little, toward the world . . . running back toward the pink egg when we grew too afraid . . . or when the steps came too close together or seemed too steep...
...Bells. In the steep forests of Norway, German guerrillas still skulked and fought. In Denmark, for want of transportation, practically the only food surpluses in Europe were near standstill. Only butter, eggs, meat moved, thinly, to England, Norway, the U.S. Army...
...drop, steep as it had been, had still not been as hard as expected. The industry, which had employed 1,250,000 just before the fighting stopped, will probably be down to 250,000 by the first of next month. And at that point planemakers hoped the layoffs would stop. Looking at their backlogs, they had reason to think...