Word: steep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foreign manufactures re-enter the market. But Brazil is accumulating capital, machinery, know-how. Brazil's level of industrialization will probably remain well above what it was when the war began. Part of the money to equip her factories with the best foreign machinery will come from a steep excess-profits tax which may be avoided by putting twice the amount into government-issued "equipment certificates...
...chickens for Christmas. They would be back for Tony's pig for New Year's. Tony, his son and their friends waited. From ambush they fired an Italian rifle and an Italian machine gun. They tossed the bodies into a quickly dug grave and scrambled up a steep path to Gessapolina. There they had the protection of British patrols...
...Aleutians they swung from ropes to chisel footholes in the solid rock of steep cliffs, and working on the mountain's precipitous wall in a driving rain constructed a track for a traveling carriage...
Partisans with tommy guns stood guard where Jajce's steep and darkened streets leave the town for the mountains. The Germans across the ridge might know of the meeting, try a night attack. In the center of the old Bosnian town, in a shabby hall beyond the Turkish fountain, sat 142 sweating, cheering men, engaged in founding a government...
...walked beside of Grandpa a-holdin to his hand. Many sang songs as we walked down the mountain, a mountain so steep that it made the knees creak to hold us back...