Word: steeped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minor difficulties in the path of those who would woo and conquer her. Each year in the climbing season some 75,000 mountaineers flock to the resort town of Chamonix to have a try at scaling her heights, and most of them succeed. But in the winter, when her steep slopes are swept by gales often reaching 100 miles an hour and the temperature drops below zero, the icy-hearted mountain becomes a fickle and merciless termagant. Few, even among expert mountain climbers, care to risk her treachery in the off season, and to those who do, the professional guides...
Northward the steep world rises to Scythia And south of Libya descends, where black Styx and the lowest of the dead look...
...soon clear that Nehru had only been waiting for his tea to steep. On his first night in Manhattan he went before the United Nations General Assembly and poured it on-5,500 words. Eloquently, he dwelt (as he often does) on his recollections of Mohandas Gandhi: "Now, the major lesson that Mr. Gandhi impressed upon us was how to do things, apart from what we did ... how to proceed in attaining an objective ... so as not to create a fresh problem in the attempt to solve one problem: never to deal with the enemy in such...
Snugly sheltered by steep hills on three sides and the lake on the fourth, Georgeville looks to the future casually and without excitement. Much of the village youth seems to be leaving, jobs are scarce, and the rocky, wooded land is producing just about the same meagre wealth as it always has. The outlook seems now just about the same as it was in 1941, when some city folk bought "Dun's Law" for $1,100. They're not city folk, really, anymore, and prices have risen some, but all else seems just about the same...
...with Steep Rock, Canada waived corporate income taxes on Consolidated Premium for the first three years. Since 1945, Consolidated has paid Canadian taxes, but none to the U.S. Now the U.S. contends that Consolidated ran its offices in Cleveland until 1950, therefore, owes $300,000 in U.S. taxes from 1944 to 1949. In addition, the U.S. wants more than $1,500,000 from Eaton, and more than $388,000 from Daley in back personal income taxes for 1943, the year of the stock transfer...