Word: steeped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...incline was steep. As the wheels of the two locomotives spun on the slippery rails, smoke poured from the stacks, swirled about the passengers. In the caboose, still sticking out of the tunnel, a brakeman heard strange noises coming from the freight cars ahead, realized something was terribly wrong, ran back down the track to Balvano. When he arrived, Assistant Stationmaster Giuseppe Salonia-told by the next station that 8017 had not arrived-was trying to figure out where the train could be. Rescuers rushed to the tunnel in a locomotive. From inside came the sound of the stalled engines...
Near Pikes Peak was a creek with banks so steep that cattlemen named it Cripple Creek. The place was poor for grazing, but some Colorado promoters in 1884 thought it looked like a fine spot for a quick killing. As the story goes, they dug a shaft and fired shotgun charges of gold dust into the sides, spread the word of their "strike," and cleaned up on the dupes who rushed in to buy claims...
...been very low; the United States has imported only five tons. The Spanish government raised the price of the ore from $2,300 a ton to $4,700 a ton last winter, and has now set a new export minimum of $4,900 a ton. This price is too steep for American steel makers, who have been forced to develop the inferior sources of ore in this country...
Gripps, as the courtly dining room of the Hong Kong Hotel is called. In the Gripps, both British and Chinese scrupulously dressed for dinner. A few blocks away, the steep streets of the Chinese quarter rang with the click-clack of wooden clogs and the incessant rattle and shuffle of mah-jongg pieces...
...Germans made up for this anonymity on the course. In four runs down the steep route (which drops 500 feet in less than a mile), they not only won the 1951 world title, but set a new course record: 1:15.9. Runners-up: the Americans and the Swiss...