Word: climbers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jets scored their biggest one-day kill of the war: 13 MIGs destroyed, two probables, one damaged. Only one Sabre was lost. , Although the Sabres have consistently given the MIGs a bad beating, the Red jet is a first-class military fighter, a nimbler craft in maneuver, a faster climber, with more speed above 32,000 feet than the heavier, longer-ranged Sabre. Among reasons for the Sabre's performance in battle: superior speed below 25,000 feet, better diving speed, a fine electronic computing gunsight, better pilots. "If I could have a couple of sessions against those characters...
Back home in England, scientists decided that these latest tracks belonged to some kind of bear-Ursus arctos isabellinus, perhaps. One Everest climber suggested that the prints had been made with snowshoes manufactured by the Snowmen. Yet no one was really satisfied...
...flashing a bright neon-lighted toast: "HERE'S GOOD LUCK TO YOU." One rainy night last week, its intermittent flash disclosed an odd, yet strangely familiar spectacle. A dark-haired youth was edging his way up a fire-escape ladder high on the 19-story Kentucky Hotel. The climber reached the top, took a quick step and balanced erect on a narrow ledge at the roof level-just as a 19-year-old soldier who called himself Louis Turini had balanced on a narrow ledge of Boston's Touraine Hotel and threatened to jump one drizzly evening last...
Schumann warned Americans that they should not be too hard on Europe in their demands for rearmament. He compared Europe's position to that of an injured mountain climber, who has just reached the stage of throwing away his crutches. Then, all of a sudden, he is told that he has to climb a further mountain. He will go out and do all he can, but that will not be as much as before the accident. "He needs a stronger rope and a friend's arm to make the necessary effort...
Several professors plan trips across the Atlantic. Hassler Whitney, professor of Mathematics, will go on a mountain climbing tour in the Swiss Alps. An accomplished climber, Whitney is a member of the American Alpine Club...