Word: steep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every Sunday afternoon, over Manhattan's city-operated radio station WNYC, Mayor Fiorello ("Lippy") LaGuardia speaks "nonpolitically" to his seven and a half million charges, exhorting them to follow him up the steep, stony path of municipal rectitude. Not many of his charges bother to listen. But on the Nov. 7 broadcast, His hen-shaped Honor extended his audience by tripping over his extended...
High Stakes. Despite its huge loot, Germany has been unable to assemble adequate basic reserves. The nation has been like a gambler in an increasingly steep game, winning big sums yet compelled to throw it all back in, to meet the relentless doubling by the other players...
...fighting took place on this war's loftiest battleground-10,000 ft. above sea level. Foot soldiers crawled up steep trails, through barbed, prickly grass. They used grenades, rifles, and mountain guns; they panted for breath and belabored pack animals. The advantage lay with the Japs, in whose rear good motor roads fed supplies and reinforcements. Behind the Chinese, communications were slow and tortuous...
...Road's cost seems high for what Sunday drivers' maps would call a "secondary road." It will total around $125,000,000-some $75,000 a mile for road built. But this price-the approximate price of a battleship-looked less steep when the Japs were in the Aleutians and the sea routes to Alaska were menaced...
...miles behind the bombers and catching up fast when a 7.7 slug from a Zero entered the cockpit. I pushed over, skidded away and went into a steep dive at 500 feet. I barely managed to mush out at 50 feet over the water. The Zero had less luck, I guess. At least he wasn't there when I looked-just a big splash...