Word: steeped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Impatient passengers upstairs mistook the whistle for the last call to board. There was a stampede to the steep, 14-ft.-wide stone stairway leading down to the platform, whose steps were covered with snow that had drifted in through the station's broken roof. Someone slipped, and in seconds the stair shaft was corked with screaming, struggling people. When the rush was over, 31 were dead, eleven of them children, in the worst railway disaster in Korean history...
...halibut. To find them, a survey ship cruises in likely places until it is in water of the right depth (no more than 750 ft.). Then its scientists study the bottom with electronic sounding gear, test the currents with meters. If the bottom is rocky or too steep, it will damage the fishermen's dragging apparatus. If a fast current flows near the bottom, fish will be scarce. A fast current at higher levels may make dragging difficult. In the past few years, Japanese survey ships have discovered four new dragging grounds off Kamchatka and the Aleutians...
...been times when the world seemed to be sitting on top of him. The son of a Chinese store owner, he studied painting in Hong Kong, moved to the U.S. at 18, worked as a houseboy, cook and factory hand. The WPA art program started him on his long, steep climb from the gaudy obscurity of San Francisco's Chinatown...
...slopes in his Studebaker. The top candidates for the three-man team are all named Kindle: Silvan Kindle, 23; his third cousin Hermann Kindle, 24; and Gebhard Kindle, 21, no kin. The Kindle Kinder train hard. Liechtenstein has no ski lifts; the husky young Olympians must hike up the steep Alpine slopes on foot. All of them work in factories, ski only on weekends. "That's the Olympic idea," says Baron von Falz-Fein. "Do sports for your pleasure. Naturally, I would like to see my boys train longer, but if I took them out of their factories, they...