Word: steeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many a U. S. taxpayer put his tax return in the mail last week, then rushed to the nearest bar to get a jolt of what P. G. Wodehouse has called "the stuff that restores the tissues." Taxes were steep; some citizens were paying the highest taxes in U. S. history, and to most of them it felt like it. But their morning newspapers assured them, in Washington dispatches that read as if they had been written by men who had also suffered deeply, that this was only the beginning...
...steep-roofed, three-story house, with the front door opening on the street, an arched carriage entrance at the side. Over the door was a freshly painted sign: "Eggs, venison and fowl, Proprietor Elli Wagner." In the courtyard behind the house still stood the decaying shop, with moldering yellow bricks and sturdy, hand-hewn beams, where Grandfather Willkie, and his father before him, kept their coppersmithy...
...from the movies and the newsreels, jumping is the zenith of competitive skiing. But only about one skier in ten is a jumper. Finns prefer the langlanf -racing on the flat. Precision-minded skiers like the slalom-a tricky obstacle race between pairs of flags set irregularly down a steep hillside. For daredevils with a taste for breakneck speed, slashing turns, there is only one sport on skis: downhill racing-probably the most difficult and dangerous form of skiing competition...
...Jerome Hotel. Thither small boys carried trays of beer, as spectators watched with telescopes through the wide windows Aspen's first running of the national downhill and slalom championships. On Saturday they saw stocky, Austrian-born Toni Matt, of North Conway, N. H., whoosh out of the steep pitch of the "Dipsy Doodle" into the Big Corkscrew to finish first in 2 min. 22.6 sec.-an average of better than 44 m.p.h. Second place in the slalom next day made him U. S. combined champion. Said National Ski Association President Roger Langley, after this first trial of Roch...
...fight but he wanted to help. Turning up in Ottawa in dowdy clothes spotted by cigaret ashes, he promoted a laboratory for aviation research. Rumor had it that he was working on ways to prevent "blackouts" (brief losses of consciousness) in fighter pilots pulling out of steep dives. It was in connection with this work that he was flying to England...