Word: steepest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost three years Colombia's silver-haired Mariano Ospina Pérez has walked some of the steepest political cliffs in Latin America. Not once have his judgment, his courage and his silken poise failed him. A Conservative who reached the presidency because of a split in the Liberal Party, he has had to govern with a Liberal majority in the Congress and with a coalition cabinet. Ospina brushed off diehard Conservative pressure to crush the opposition by high-handed use of his powers. Last year, when enraged followers of assassinated Liberal Chieftain Jorge Eliécer Gaitan sacked...
...Harried by competition from brisk, unscheduled Trans Caribbean Airways, Pan Am last week made one of the industry's steepest cuts. To lure passengers on its Puerto Rican run it instituted a "coach" service. By ripping out the galley and some baggage racks, it now puts 63 (v. 52) passengers into its DC-4 planes, has cut the one-way fare from $133 to $75 (plus...
...college in which everyone skis, the club maintains a chain of 16 cabins and several shelters reaching out into the Vermont hills. On Mt. Moosilauke, known familiarly as "Dartmouth's Mountain," the club has set up 14 miles of ski trails with "Hell's Highway" one of the steepest runs in New England. Out on the golf course are 13 more miles of ski trails, a 1200 foot tramway, and two mammoth jumps. The Outing Club is probably one of the most active outdoor groups in the country...
Hottest program news of all: after many a song & dance about it, Bing Crosby had decided to sign with Philco. Last week he sent them his terms, probably the steepest in radio history: 1) $35,000 for a weekly half-hour program; 2) the right to transcribe some shows. The reason: he might want to be somewhere else at broadcast time,* could record the program in advance...
...vanished England, move up to bed, to death. The younger couple, a sorrowful, sadly mismated Adam and Eve, are left alone to their marriage and to silence, sailing like disconsolate swans on the exhausted calm of a summer evening, and on the edge of one of the steepest chasms in history...