Word: infernos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dropped the hammer & sickle as a party emblem, used pictures of Garibaldi instead. To others, they simply promised houses, land, food; many Italians could not understand why voting for such things was a sin. They had developed the egotism of misery, like the sufferers in the Inferno whom Dante described as "that caitiff choir of the angels, who were not rebellious, nor were faithful to God; but were for themselves...
Season highlights still remaining are the dual meet with Yale on April 2, the annual Dartmouth slalom, and, on April 11, the most gruelling downhill race on the continent, the American Inferno, from the summit of Mt. Washington to the bottom of Pinkham Notch...
...Ranier, Washington, prides itself on both open slopes and trails, and is the annual scene of the Silver Skis race, second only to Mt. Washington's Grand Inferno race in length. Mt. Baker, north-west of Ranier, will vie for Washington's First Mountain when its development, now underway, is completed...
Tuckerman Ravine on Mount Washington is the fastest and steopest skiing in the East. The headwall of Tuckerman, a cliff padded with over 200 feet of snow, has a maximum slope of above 45 degrees and is the scene of the annual Inferno races. This is strictly spring corn snow skiing, although the ravine basin and the Sherburn trail to the base of Washington are good all winter...
Circle No. 2. The second circle of Miss West's inferno is that of the grotesques-those who were more developed but scarcely older than the children. Some were, like Kenneth Edward, merchant seamen. Some were British prisoners of war who went over to the Germans. Some had been members of Sir Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists. Almost all became members of the British Free Corps...