Word: hogback
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...jumping enthusiasts, Hogback Mountain in Brattleboro, Vermont, is the place to go. The 70 metre jump, scene of Winged Trophy judging, is the biggest and best in the east, possibly excepting the Lake Placid jump...
...ugly red brick buildings, begrimed by industrial smoke, sat on a treeless, limestone hogback. Most of the barracks windows were broken. There were no lawns or plantings around the camp. Worse than the looks of the place were the ugly reports that came from there...
Home to Gene Atkins meant a wretched rural slum. His father was a sharecropper in the Hogback Mountain region, where tenant farms are rich only in ragged children, moonshine stills and Redbone hounds. The hero and his hill bride had little chance of escaping poverty. Broke, Gene Atkins was resigned to spend his $300 mustering-out pay for a stock-mule, harness, turning plow, singlefoot, geewhiz, section harrow, planter and wagon-and then sharecropping cotton on another man's land...
...rugged Sespe Valley in the wild back country of California's Ventura County one day last week motored a Los Angeles Times newshawk, a photographer and Sidney B. Peyton, Fillmore citrus grower and able amateur ornithologist. Up and up for a mile they climbed a great hogback of white cliffs, jagged peaks, huge caves and waterfalls. When the narrow road ended they left their car, tramped off into the brush. After a few miles, shouts went up as they saw what they had come to see-a monstrous black bird soaring far overhead, its white underwings flashing...