Word: switchback
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...architectural scholars can boast such detailed knowledge of the place. When one walks along the sinister, switchback gully of Ruckus' Wall Street, past the dark banks ("Manufacturers Handover") and the pullulating Stock Exchange with its Big Board and some 500 gesticulating brokers, one senses that every crocket and finial on the wildly leaning façade of Trinity Church is right...
GARY HART, 36, the manager of George McGovern's 1972 presidential campaign, who defeated Colorado's two-term incumbent Republican Senator, Peter Dominick. A sort of "Marlboro man" turned politician, the Kansas-born Hart stumped the state for 18 months in an endless switchback between the vote-rich "front range" and the lightly populated western slope The party is over, the day of having it all is gone," he told Coloradans, pledging to conserve the state's energy resources and work against any damaging exploitation of Colorado's oil shale "We lave an energy-rich state...
...annual Avis memorial Mt. Hood-to-Mammoth Mt.-peak-to-shining-peak sprint was completed by rented cars piloted by "Rat Reid" and "Boomer Mumphord" in the phenomenal time of nine hours, ten minutes. The two covered the normally 14-hour jaunt, crossing over two 8000-foot passes with switchback sections, within five minutes of each other; and the winner, whoever he was, got two cases of beer from the losers...
...down through Cibola National Forest, bitter cold, high winds and 15-ft. drifts from a sudden snowstorm turned the nightwalk into a nightmare. It took them nine hours instead of the usual five to negotiate six miles on snowshoes, edging their way down the steep switchback trails sideways like crabs. "We all had spills," said a weary Douglas when the party reached safety. "You learn to walk that canyon with great respect." But just the same, "Mrs. Douglas and I are coming out in the summer...
...rising young men of Austin (among her beaux: Silliman Evans, now a Nashville publisher, James Allred, who became governor of Texas (1935-38), but most of the time she was too busy for the flapperish goings-on of the day. Old Ike Culp took to carrying a long-bladed, switchback knife in his pocket, ostensibly to pare his nails, but word got around the legislature that he intended to use it on any young man who attempted to get smart around Oveta...