Word: setting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Warren Harding (no kin to the President) had led the first conquest of El Capitan by the easier, "Nose" route in 1958. He met Dean Caldwell, a climber since his teens, in a bar in the Yosemite Lodge two years ago, and the two set out to master the most difficult path up the 3,000-ft. cliff in their first climb together. Harding, 46, and Caldwell, 27, hauled 300 pounds of equipment. They averaged only 150 ft. each day, screwing expansion bolts into the wall as they inched their way upward. The ascent-originally scheduled to take twelve days...
Khrushchev recalls another telephone call, informing him of the 1934 murder of Leningrad Party Chief Sergei Kirov by a Trotskyite dissident. It was that event that set the stage for one of the most terrifying eras of modern history: the Great Purges of the 1930s, or, as Khrushchev calls them, "the meat mincer." The NKVD, Stalin's secret police and precursor of today's KGB, suddenly became all-powerful, and thousands of party officials and army officers began to vanish. Khrushchev survived the grim era in willing ignorance. "I don't know where these people were sent...
Sophomore Chris Papagianis set up teammate Charlie Thomas for two first period goals, and the Crimson defense held off a desperate last period surge by Brown, as the varsity soccer team won the New England regional championship with a 2-1 victory over the Bruins...
...feel exposure to the way the system works is crucial in some fields for the student to get a true flavor of the subject," Sander said. "At the same time, I feel there is a certain benefit to be had from analyzing cases in the classroom set...
...first period was hard-fought. and the Bruins hit the post twice but the Crimson scored at 17:30 when Sandy Wall set up Sweeney...