Word: clambering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whole business takes plenty of practice. Training groups clamber on the rooks of the Quiney quarries on weekends. The team, in varying numbers, has played around on Washington, attempted two New Hampshire ledges, and Schwangunk, in the lower Catskilla, this season. Another trip leaves for Schwangunk this weekend...
...Yongdung rail junction, outside Seoul, 20,000 refugees squatted in an area about 100 yards wide and half a mile long, waiting for a chance to clamber aboard freight trains. They strapped themselves to the sides of flatcars, clung to perilous footholds by slender strands of rope. On one engine, a woman wedged herself atop a steam valve to keep warm, not realizing that when the train started moving she would inevitably freeze and topple...
...putters about the suburbs of literature. As the child of zealous Philadelphia Quakers (his father was a glass manufacturer), little Logan fell in love with religion at the age of four and for the next few years became, as he later put it, an "odious little prig" who would clamber aboard horse cars handing out tracts and asking people if they had been saved. Before long he lost his faith; never again would he so thoroughly commit his emotions to an interest outside himself...
...divert their wastes from the state's polluted rivers and streams, by forcing mine operators to reforest the huge scars made by strip mining, by establishing public recreation areas and raising unemployment insurance. He had tangled with Joe Grundy again at the 1948 convention when he refused to clamber aboard the Dewey bandwagon. Now both sides recognized that the struggle was at a crucial stage...
...tower to show his scorn for humanity. Despite numerous old Hollywood traditions, Radek does not jump, thereby supplying one of the film's pleasantest surprises. He comes breathlessly close, however, in a series of amazing shots that will make you wonder whether or not Tone and Meredith actually did clamber all over this maze of girders. How Maigret bloodlessly outwits Radek proves a vastly satisfying way of rounding out these two-hours of tense action...