Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Proud Britons acclaimed the ascent of Everest as an achievement of the race that bore Raleigh, Nelson and Rhodes. To Asians it quickly became the personal-and national-triumph of a nut-brown little Sherpa who cannot read or write but who has grappled oftener with Everest (eleven expeditions) than any man alive...
...Jockey Gordon Richards to a thief, name unknown. Preoccupied with his fast-approaching accolade of knighthood, Sir Gordon requested only that the thief be a "sportsman" and return a gold cigarette case, a gift from the late King George V. As one sportsman to another, Richards was willing to write off the rest of the loot: a pair of gold spurs, a gold compact and pencil, a box of cigars, half a bottle of whisky and an unspecified amount of money...
...father owned and operated the best hotel and saloon in Butte, Mont., and Leslie Bechtel grew up there. "I think I could play poker before I could read or write." Bechtel went to school with copper miners' children who were sent down into the pits when they were 14. Growing up, he decided to be a lawyer and do something about such social injustice...
...Senator Hugh Butler came the letter of a 14-year-old constituent. "I've written the Bureau of Land Management to inquire about buying property on Venus," it said. "I received the reply that it had no authority to give ownership. Therefore, I am asking you to write a bill. Something which would in the Senate further my interests. I am neither joking nor have I read too much science fiction. It appears that colonization of the universe is going to commence soon." Senator Butler promised the young spacesteader first consideration when & if the celestial land rush takes place...
Within the last few months, death came to many noted men and women. For each question below two correct answers are possible. Write in either name...