Word: surmountable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...FOUGHT DESPERATELY AGAINST PARTITION AND FOR A NEUTRAL ZONE IN THE CATHOLIC AREA OF NORTH VIET NAM. ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBLE TO SURMOUNT THE HOSTILITY OF OUR ENEMIES AND THE PERFIDY OF FALSE FRIENDS. UNUSUAL PROCEDURES PARALYZED THE ACTION OF OUR DELEGATION . . . ALL ARRANGEMENTS WERE SIGNED IN PRIVACY. WE EXPRESS OUR DEEPEST SORROWS IN THIS TOTAL FAILURE OF OUR MISSION. WE RESPECTFULLY SUBMIT OUR RESIGNATION...
...brown man, held together by a light nylon rope, climbed the highest mountain. In this feat of the New Zealand beekeeper, Edmund Hillary, and the sinewy Sherpa tribesman, Tenzing, millions down in the mundane valleys felt a vicarious exhilaration-the reminder that by valor and dedication man may surmount his Everests...
PRAVDA: The organs of big capital almost openly are advocating a new world war as a means of surmounting the economic crisis. They are trying to surmount it by means of a further arms race...
...Five years later, in The Blue Hussar, he described French troops in action and occupation with a bite and candor that made most U.S. war novelists seem like self-pitying recruits. Now, even in a tasteless and jazzed-up translation, it is a novel that still manages to surmount the irritation it induces...
...Brooklyn bumpkin named Knucklehead Smiff is now getting a big buildup. But Jerry, a redhaired, eye-rolling twelve-year-old, remains a scene stealer whose small-boy enthusiasms (Winchell reads comic books to keep in style) and good-natured sauciness (but none of Charlie McCarthy's lethal impudence) surmount the reality that he is actually 25 Ibs. of whitewood, metal and rubber, with rods, latches, levers, springs, glass eyes and a broomstick spine...