Word: mountingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Physicist Edward Teller traversed the north side of Oregon's Mount Hood with his son Paul, 16, and daughter Susan Wendi, 13. Darkness trapped them near a swollen stream, and the "Father of the H-Bomb" thought the water looked too heavy to be forded at night. When rescuers reached them in the cold predawn, Teller assured them: "We were not lost. We simply got a late start." Said one rescuer ambiguously: "Dr. Teller had a good case of the shakes...
...inconceivable to me.'' cried crusty U.S. Navy Captain Douglas Dismukes in 1925, "that an officer with my record should be passed over for promotion to admiral." Largely to appease Sea Dog Dismukes, who, although credited with saving the torpedoed transport Mount Vernon in World War I, was being forced into retirement because of age, Congress that year passed the so-called "Tombstone Law." Under it, all battle-cited Navy, Marine and Coast Guard officers are promoted one grade upon being piped out of service. This allowed a generous wash of war-decorated four-stripe captains, for example...
North by Northwest. Alfred Hitchcock's latest cliffhanger (the cliffs are on Mount Rushmore), thoroughly entertaining and suspenseful, with Gary Grant hemmed in by spies and counterspies, among them Eva Marie Saint and James Mason...
...first to carry mail by air (letters from London to King George V at Windsor), the first to try night flying (boys trained their bicycle lights on the runway to help him take off; friends formed a procession of automobile lights along his route), the first to mount a machine gun on a plane and later use it in dogfights in World War I; in Nice, France...
North by Northwest. Alfred Hitchcock's latest cliffhanger (the cliffs are on Mount Rushmore), thoroughly entertaining and suspenseful, with Gary Grant hemmed in by spies and counterspies, among them Eva Marie Saint and James Mason...