Word: climbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brought him back to The Scene, then watched him knock 'em dead at the Fillmore East. Immediately, the word about Johnny began to spread through the pop underground, and four major record companies began bidding for his services. Columbia won, and Johnny's quick climb to fame was done. Pretty good for a guy who had doubts about coming to New York City in the first place. Recalls Johnny: "But I figured why not? It's a free plane trip...
...Teamsters' knack of squeezing out the most in wage negotiations. Human nature being what it is, the average driver will naturally expect even more, especially if he happens to live next door to, say, a senior airline captain. The pilot's $45,000 top annual pay will climb to $57,000 when the jumbo jets go into service later this year...
...thought, almost straight up for about thirty feet. There was nothing to hold onto--there was only the wet slippery clay, which three days before, in Southern California, had killed 11 people in a mudslide. The boy looked at this bank of clay, and then he began to climb. He dug out a foothold for himself, then reached up and grabbed a rock. It came loose and slid down onto the road. "If a man were to drive by now, he would think I was crazy...
...spiders!" he cried to himself. But as the fear of the night before returned to him, he heard himself breathing. "No." He shouted, looking straight ahead. "I am safe in my breathing. Whatever happens I am safe in my breathing, and nothing can touch me." He began to climb...
...climb like none he had ever experienced before. Often he had to simply plunge forward, dragging himself up through the heavy brush, grabbing on wherever it was possible, plunging in one foot, then swinging the other foot high, and beyond the first. As he climbed, he was scared--scared that he would turn back, that he would turn back and then have to start again or forever carry this failure with him. But all the while he felt his breathing. "I am safe there. I will climb this mountain. I will...