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Bonatti decided to abandon the ascent. At 10:30 a.m., the three men started down-their task made all the trickier because the surface of the rock was covered with fresh ice. Finally, at 6 p.m. they reached the base of the vertical wall and collapsed, exhausted, on a narrow ledge-the first horizontal surface they had seen in five days. They had not eaten or drunk in 72 hours, and when they staggered back into Zermatt after seven days on the Matterhorn, they discovered that newspapers had already given them up for dead. Dead? Next day Bonatti went skiing...
Like An Ocean Wave. Mississippi was trickier, and to handle its case Johnson placed none other than Hubert Humphrey in charge of negotiations. Hubert warned aides that a floor fight must be avoided at all costs: "If it gets on the floor it will roll like an ocean wave-br'ooom!" The compromise required that the regular Mississippi delegates sign loyalty oaths, provided that the Freedom delegates could sit as non-voting "honored guests," with two members voting as "delegates at large," and set up machinery enabling the 1968 convention to reject any state delegation based on racial discrimination...
...time he did the next best thing: he retired after two innings, with the game tied 4-4. That left it up to Relief Pitcher Stan Williams, whose special talent is that he does not know how to field a bunt. In the eighth inning, he picked up a trickier-and threw the ball into left field. Then, he picked up another-and threw it into right field. Final score: Baltimore 7, New York 4. Said Berra: "It ain't time to worry yet. I mean, it isn't time to worry...
...masterminding a successful jailbreak for a rich client every couple of years, the businessman-of-crime known as the Scarperer makes enough to live the life of a gent of leisure. This time the trick is trickier. The client is a toff London tough lodged in Dublin's Mountjoy penitentiary, and the price is 5,000 nicker. But when the limey is sprung by the Scarperer's guileful crew, he finds himself the victim of a Gaelic doublecross. The Scarperer has arranged to have him drowned and his body washed up on the coast of France. The implausible...
...overtimes the Crimson returned the rugged play of its opponents. Right inside John Thorndike refused to give up, Sam Thompson was trickier than ever on the wing. And sophomore Hudson, who had replaced Ohiri on the right wing, had his big moment of glory with a booming game-winning shot that gave the Crimson its fourth victory of the season, and a strong second place behind Penn...