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Summitry. Has no intention, as things stand, of reaching for his alpenstock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: A Piece of His Mind | 4/13/1962 | See Source »

There was just one Old Bolshevik left: Stalin sent out his new operatives after him. Halfway round the world, a young Spanish Communist named Mercader, alias Monar (with an assist from the New York Communist Party), found Trotsky in Mexico City and killed him with an alpenstock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death In The Kremlin: Killer of the Masses | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

...days later, on Table Mountain, the Queen's hat blew off. Clad in khaki slacks and armed with an alpenstock, the Royal Family's brisk old (77) host, Jan Christian Smuts (who had walked up the mountain while royalty rode), hastily interrupted a discourse in geology to take off after it. He returned with the hat in one hand, a graceful blue feather in the other. The King, whose powers of observation are apparently not much better than the average husband's, wanted to know where Smuts had found such a lovely feather. "It's from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Tot Siens | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

...plans to shorten the devious route from Texas to his parish by flying over as much of the northern territory as possible. When he arrives he will be confronted by difficult tasks. Hostile native sorcerers are slippery hummocks of the spirit. To surmount them his cross must be his alpenstock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Polar Priest | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

...alpenstock was in her hand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE EDELWEISS. | 11/22/1878 | See Source »

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