Word: clambering
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...conspicuous figures at meals. Our self-consciousness about femalehood was imposed upon us just as much as it grew out of all female living, because we were such a minority. We dressed for class, for the invasion, because we were a spectacle. Often the entire Freshman Union would clamber to its feet when a woman entered, cheering, pounding silverware, jeering or bellowing. I remember being a one-girl exhibition in a Hum 8 section of 25: the sectionman would spend 40 out of 50 minutes making wisecracks about football, and then he would catch himself mid-sentence and bow like...
LATE IN THE PRIMARIES there was rumination on the columnists' collective inability to assess McGovern's strengths and the dedication of his constituency; the dawning sense that the political tour guides had themselves missed the boat led to hasty attempts to clamber aboard during convention time, with excessive praise for the sharp young technocrats of the McGovern staff. Then, having at last paid their dues to McGovern, the columnists could sound objective as they announced a coming Nixon landslide and scolded the post-Eagleton McGovern for not living up to the conventiontime notices on his efficient and pragmatic organization...
...oldest find was made by Norman Wakefield, 53, who, like Jensen, is also a tall (6 ft. 2 in.), rangy digger. On holidays from his post as head of the biology department at the teachers' college of Melbourne's Monash University, he likes nothing better than to clamber over the rocks of Australia's bush country. Last September, while exploring a rock-rimmed stream in eastern Victoria, he discovered, preserved in the rock, several small imprints of an ancient four-legged creature with webbed five-toed hind feet and possibly three-toed front feet. Geological dating showed...
...astronauts and their full baggage, a payload more than twice the vehicle's own earth weight (460 Ibs.), the buggy is a model of efficiency, if not Daytona-like speed (maximum: 10 m.p.h.). The battery-powered car should be able to cross crevasses as wide as 28 in., clamber up and down slopes of 25° and travel up to 40 miles. Each of its four wide-track, wire-mesh wheels is driven by its own gears and a i-h.p. electric motor. In case one motor fails, it can be cut out of the power system...
...shellproof bunkers on the 95-mile Bar-Lev Line. Across the 200 yards of canal, the two sides keep constant watch on each other. The Israelis have built observation towers above the bunkers. The Egyptians occasionally drive a fire truck up to the canal, extend the ladder and clamber up to take a look at the Israeli side...