Word: steeping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...return for these riches, mountainous Chile pays a steep price. Situated at one end of the great Pacific earthquake arc* that sweeps around from Borneo and the Philippines, through Japan, Alaska, the U. S. Pacific Coast and down through central and western South America to the Cape, Chile shares honors with Japan as the shakiest region on earth. Of 9,000 big & little quakes & tremors recorded every year, fully 21% occur in Chile. Seismic observers estimate that during the past three centuries Chile has had on the average a serious quake every three years. Last week she was hit again...
...most Congressmen, the President's half-billion-dollar arms program was less steep than they had expected...
...From the AffonsoArinos school at Bello-Horizonte, some 300 miles across the steep slopes of the Serra da Mantiqueira range from Rio de Janeiro, last week a boisterous troop of boys raced for the depot of the Central do Brazil railway. They clambered into the nine creaking wooden coaches and snuggled down for the ecstatic ride home for Christmas. Winding south, the train picked up more passengers including laborers on their way to São Paulo farms...
...person coming down at trail or a steep hill obviously out of control used to be an object of amazement to the onlookers," he said. "But nowadays, people just look at him disgustedly and class him as a damn fool...
Inexperienced skiers should stay off the steep slopes, Niles advised. They should not go out with much better skiers unless the experienced ones are willing to spend the day on a gentle slope teaching them...