Word: climbing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...sorrowing old President Kallio was too tired to climb the mountain-high problems ahead of him last spring. His country's best land had been handed over to the enemy. The best of its male youth was dead or disabled. Shortages of food, medicine and clothing were tying up the task of resettling half a million refugees from the ceded areas. And the rest of the world, which had loudly applauded Finland's gallant fight last winter, turned its sympathies to new underdogs in the fall. Though free and independent, Finland was thoughtlessly classed with the conquered...
...flying adage is that "there is no substitute for soup," i.e., horsepower. In soup the new radials were ahead of the Allison by close to 2-to-1, even when the Allison was putting out its full power. Excess power means not only more speed, but better climb, higher service ceiling, more ability to lug the heavy armament load needed in modern fighters...
Beyond Tamazunchale the real climb into the Mexican sierras began, but the party was shut off from the incredible views by a blanket of mist. For a time Henry Wallace was a little carsick from the dizzy curves, and got out and walked until it passed off. Up on the plateau the peasants had decorated the bridges with stalks of corn to welcome...
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...week's crop of eager joiners would probably not be the last. These were no surprise candidates. Hungary has long been the steadfast sycophant of Germany. She was the first to climb aboard the Anti-Comintern Pact, and she was the first to gain territories with the help of the Axis. Rumania, at whose expense the more recent gains were made, joined because she had to. There were some 15,000 German soldiers garrisoned in Rumania last week as a grim guarantee of friendship. Most people thought of Slovakia as part of Greater Germany (actually the area...