Word: clambering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...puny revolution that Boston is so full of, but the war between the states, fought to preserve the union forged in the first conflict. Fort Warren was a huge Civil War prison, housing captured and cold Confederates in its musty dungeons. Visitors to the island today can clamber inside the earthen and granite prisons and imagine how lonesome life must have been for these sons of the South. So lonesome, in-indeed, that one young officer devised a way out of his predicament. He smuggled a message to his Georgia wife, asking her to aid his escape. She came...
Brooke closes to an ovation that might have been standing if the crowd had the energy to make it to its feet. The emcee rushes over to shake his hand. Brooke leans back into the audience on his way out. The old women clamber around him, groping to touch the hand of a former National Senior Citizens Council "Man of the Year." By the end of the day, Brooke will have kissed over 100 women. But he is no longer the young maverick from Massachusetts. You can see it in his eyes. Ed Brooke is growing old and running scared...
...Crass shirts, found the hard way that its boat could not support 15 drunk students and one not-so-reluctant proctor. However, after being tossed into the icy water a few times, and battling a dog who had made off with an oar, the crew members still tried to clamber aboard the remains of their vessel. The Rapists eventually snared the "Ronald Reagan" award for leaning furthest to the right...
...there is not enough going on in them to hold the eye. Size is what makes them work, and when they are large, their internal structure of gusset and rib gives them a visual texture that they lack on the small scale. One needs to walk around them and clamber inside their angular crevices. The planes of steel, sliding briskly through space, need real-life perspective before they can impose themselves. Above all, there is a degree of risk implicit in large scale, and Pepper relishes it: the springing cantilever that seems about to topple but does not, the aggressive...
...prestigious among them are the "connectors," who actually lay the iron. They get paid the most, and they take the most risks. One out of every fifteen ironworkers is killed during his first ten years on the job. Their life insurance premiums are as high as the skyscrapers they clamber across. Things like tools drop from the heights, too--Mike Cherry's children are taught never to walk on the same side of the street as a construction site...