Word: hillmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bennett and his party arrived on the scene just as the fun was about to begin -an ill-timed arrival for Her Majesty's representative. Mr. Bennett faced down the sullen hillmen, stopping the show, and Kalyanu helped to see him through. Later, Mr. Bennett took Kalyanu along on an exploratory ascent of the high Himalayan range. On a glassy snow slope at 15,000 feet the two men were caught in a cloud. They fell, but broke their fall and were not killed. But Mr. Bennett would never have made it back to camp without Kalyanu...
...vague promises of assistance in the future they were embarrassingly grateful. They showered the most lavish hospitality on us and produced something very like a slap-up Chinese feast out of army rations dropped from the air and from the produce of the savage hillmen's gardens. They are wonderful people, the Chinese. I take off my hat to them every time. Now I'm down with malaria and am having a few days' rest. When this work's over I'm looking forward to seeing you and China again...
...hillmen and lowlanders in the farthest reaches of the U. S., to the nearest of his friends this week in the damp June heat of Washington, the name Franklin Roosevelt meant many things-interesting, exciting, even dangerous things-but no one thing they could all agree on or put a name...
...Only surprise came on the Republican side, where millionaire Governor Francis Parnell Murphy, now serving his second term, ran fifth in a race for four G. O. P. convention seats. By choosing Senators Styles Bridges and Charles Tobey, onetime Senator George Higgins Moses, onetime Governor Huntley Nowel Spaulding, the hillmen of New Hampshire told Shoemaker Murphy (Thorn McAn) to stick to his last...