Word: wall
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When sighted by veteran bush pilot Don Sheldon, the seven were at 17,000 feet. The last time they had been seen was a week ago, when they scaled 2000 feet of the previously unconquered east side of Mt. McKinley's Wickersham Wall. Observers had expressed apprehension that the party had been buried in one of a series of avalanches that swept Wickersham Wall recently, but the climbers are now above the avalanche region and are apparently out of danger...
...Mountaineering Club is attempting an extremely difficult ascent of the 19,420-foot North Peak of Mt. McKinley. The climb involves scaling Wickersham Wall, a sheer precipice of rock which rises some 14,000 feet. A group of Canadians climbed the wall last month, but the eastern route of the Harvard climbers is considerably more challenging than the route taken by the Canadian party...
...most noxious of our walls is the one we have built around Cuba. It is a paper wall, erected in the offices of the State Department, and its sole functions to keep Americans out of Cuba. Americans who travel to that island without a specially validated passport face, on their return, fines of up to five thousand dollars, jail terms of up to five years, or both...
...Brick Wall. The Murchisons had not imagined there was so much fight in old Allan Kirby. With most of his $200 million fortune tied up in big blocks of blue chips, including Manufacturers-Hanover, I.T. & T. and Woolworth, they figured that Kirby would hardly risk more to battle back. But Kirby had a one-word explanation for his persistence: "pride...
Last December, muttering that he was "sick and tired of banging my head up against a brick wall," John Murchison sold 1,500,000 of the brothers' shares in Alleghany, plus an option on their remaining 1,900,000 to an ally, Minneapolis Financier Berlin Gamble, 65. Gamble took over as Alleghany president and tried to make peace. When Kirby still balked, Gamble backed out. He sold 1,000,000 of his shares to a Kirby ally, Murray Lincoln, president of Nationwide Insurance Co. Last week, acting as a go-between for the Murchison brothers, Gamble sold...