Word: facing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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North Dakota will be an even tougher opponent for the Crimson in the games played New Year's Day and January 2 at Grand Forks. The Sioux will have played six games by the time they face the Crimson. Last year they won 15, lost six, and tied two, and have a core of lettermen on this year's squad...
...says, never varies. "The [minister] leans on the pulpit and begins in a low voice, indistinct, sleepy. Slowly he becomes animated. He slips a hand in a pocket and tells an anecdote, two, three anecdotes, until the audience consents to smile a little. Then his tone warms up, the face of the orator turns purple, his voice becomes husky. He strikes the pulpit. He paces the platform, he brandishes supplicating or vengeful fists, and only sits down when he has reached his last gasp...
Snowy Plume. Dr. Houston and Major Tilman camped on a high ridge and climbed to about 19,000 ft. to study the south face of Mt. Everest. Even at this great height (about 3,000 ft. above the summit of Mt. Blanc), they saw tracks of rabbits, mice and snow leopards. There was no snow except in crevices, but above their heads a vast plume of snow whipped off the icy summit, blowing out miles downwind like a gigantic pennant. They made maps and took photographs. Then they rejoined the rest of the party and returned to New Delhi...
...story for Everest climbers. "The south face," said their report, "presented much greater climbing difficulties than the north side. The southern face is precipitous and broken by long and intricate ridges, which would be technically difficult and dangerous. The south face may well be impossible, and we could see no practicable climbing route...
Actually, the furor over auto and steel prices was way out of proportion to their small effect on the cost of living. Retail food prices, which are far more important to consumers, had risen almost as much (4.3%) since Korea. But in the face of the politically potent farm bloc, no one in Washington was talking about removing farm price supports, which had helped food prices to rise...