Word: cliffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cliff Gates, a lean, six-foot Tennessean, became a Marine lieutenant in 1917. In France, he fought through Belleau Wood, Château-Thierry, Soissons and the Argonne Forest. Once, pinned in a pocket with only two men left alive in his company, he held off the Germans until fresh forces arrived. He had so many close calls that fellow officers named him "Lucky" Cates. Even so, he was wounded six times and gassed once, came home with a Navy Cross, a D.S.C. (with oak leaf cluster), a Croix de Guerre (with two palms and a gold star...
Composer Bloch was too ill to make the 3,000-mile trip from his cliff-hung home on the Oregon coast to the festival, but he was not too ill to compose. He spends his days combing the beach looking for agates, and mushroom-hunting in the salal and salmonberry woods nearby. In the huge living room of his house, near a life-size woodcarving of Christ, he works nervously, but neatly, as always, on a piano concerto. He and his wife Marguerite find time to play with his half-dozen cats. Says he: "We can learn much from them...
...through the hills, took by surprise a village where the forbidden "rope festival" was about to be held. In this rite, believed to make the fields fertile, the sacrificial victim had a sporting chance; he had to ride a forked stick down a rope stretched from a 500-ft. cliff to the fields below...
...paint-splashers, who left Tuesday afternoon from the vicinity of Harvard Square in three waves at 1:30, 4:30, and 5:30 o'clock, eluded Blue defenders of the cliff just before dawn and with scouts posted on the flanks, lowered two of their number down the side of the precipice...
When pity finally traps him into becoming engaged, he gets into another panic and runs away again. But while running it occurs to him that compassion is the better part of pity. He returns to make up, but finds that the despairing lady has already thrown herself over a cliff...