Word: steeped
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...faculty advisers, also praised the move. "The Club can now feel organized and have some sense of continuity in its work," he said. "Surely this is a step forward, and it is particularly fortunate the Club is in a University building where it will have no steep rental charges and the members will have a free hand to work without jeopardy to valuable property...
...enveloping the cockpits; this naturally caused us to lose altitude at a faster than normal rate. Lacking intercom in those days, I signaled the sergeant to bail out; the only delay on his part was difficulty in getting out of his safety harness and clearing the plane in a steep sideslip attitude. The sergeant, as eager as I was to get out of the plane, left it about 750 feet, and I did not get clear of the plane until about 400 feet from the ground. Believe me, neither of us was hesitant about wanting to jump to a cooler...
Prices on the new radar sets were as low as $3,200 (sonar: $475), still too steep for the average yachtsman. But with 4,500,000 U.S. boatowners on the waterways in 1954, there was hope that mass production for the mass market would eventually permit boatowners to navigate anywhere in any weather, with almost as many beeping, pinging gadgets on their craft as on the Queen Mary...
...gave each man a number and a map. One by one, as the numbers were called, each man trotted off by himself, whipped out a small compass, lined up his map and raced into the tangled underbrush. For the next three hours, they pounded across rough, trackless terrain, climbed steep hills, forded icy streams, slogged through black swamps. Every couple of miles they passed through carefully spotted check points to prove that they were sticking to a prearranged course. If they read the maps well enough, were good enough woodsmen, and if their legs and lungs held up, they eventually...
...readers will accept-or read-all of Toynbee; many will reject a great deal. But if the West, clinging to its steep cliff, wants a heartening message, one can be found in this "post-Christian" English historian. It is in the other, larger meaning of Amplexus expecta-that the West must cling to God, to a life that is always dangerous, and to man's constant, painful duty to choose between good and evil...