Word: trek
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recruits-all volunteers from other British army regiments-is exceedingly rigorous. The initial four-week selection course has a 90% failure rate. For starters, recruits are sent crawling through noxious sheep-dips and marching over mountainous terrain in Wales carrying 55-lb. backpacks on a 37%-mile, 20-hr, trek. In one ten-day exercise, half-naked recruits are set down at the mouth of a Welsh valley, harried by deafening sirens and an infantry force firing real bullets. Those who pass these tests are then taught such skills as demolition, lock picking, sabotage, unarmed combat, mountaineering, skiing, underwater diving...
Trekking is a popular pastime in the Himalayas, but when World Bank President Robert McNamara, 63, comes along, that obviously makes it a star trek. McNamara's band, on his second visit to Nepal, includes Wife Margaret, seven friends, five Sherpa guides, 26 porters, a Tibetan pony and a yak. The group is making two treks, one a 60-mile walk reaching 15,000-ft. altitudes, the other a 50-mile hike at even higher levels. Exults McNamara: "For people who live at sea level, high altitudes exact their toll. You think the top of your head is going...
...demonstrator on the other, both scared, both angry, fighting each other, returns. Those who opt for stricter nonviolence--those who climb the fence, without helmets and gas masks, those who lie in the road and wait to be dragged away--may pay a higher price. The protesters who trek to Seabrook next week must decide if victory is worth the cost...
Moments before the Harvard netmen boarded the bus for yesterday's trek to Providence, R.I. and Brown University, co-captain Bob Horne talked about what would be the squad's biggest problem that afternoon...
...meeting of Massachusetts' two greatest traditions--Harvard and the Boston Marathon--each considered the finest in its field. And although one stresses physical strength and endurance while the other emphasizes mental adeptness, both require extraordinary concentration of the thousands of participants who make the long and grueling trek. For some, the atmosphere is intensely competitive. Others set their own pace and enjoy themselves. Yet, whatever method he chooses, each participant ultimately gains a sense of achievement, self-satisfaction, and fond memories of the people who pulled him through...