Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Money to Burn. In the Bitter Root Mountains, Idaho, Bob Hart went on a mountain goat hunt, needed a fire to keep from freezing, could find no kindling, had to use $100 worth of uncashed checks...
From A to B. But the star attraction was 50-year-old Russian Author Nicolas Rostchine (White Lilac, Mountain Sun, The Stork). Said Rostchine: "I fought the Germans in the Resistance. He who does A must consequently do B. Fighting Germans, I fought for Russia. Now I must return. ... I took this decision after approaching Soviet representatives in Paris, who convinced me that those governing Russia today are the best men in the world, and that the salvation of the world lies in total Sovietization of all countries...
...effect, when it was administered by Welles (along with some shrewd and cold-hearted Welles meddling in internal Latin American affairs). It was least effective when it was merely pronounced in righteous terms by Cordell Hull, who had an unhappy faculty of alienating sensitive Latinos with the Tennessee mountain vigor of his epithets...
...Britain took off in the teeth of a howling blizzard. At the end of the second day, a faint message from the survivors was heard in Grenoble: "It is urgent. We want to live." By the third day, more than 100 planes of six nations swooped through the jagged mountain passes, buffeted by gales and dense clouds. Up from Geneva in a B-17 flew Brigadier General Ralph Snavely, whose wife was in the crashed plane, but for six hours bad weather obscured his approach to the Jungfrau. "Then," said an aide, "it was as if the Lord pushed...
Peggy Guggenheim, copper-rich patroness of the arts and collector of artists, was out two dreamlike paintings, an abstract sculpture and a utilitarian gewgaw. Incredibly stolen from her art gallery: Flat Landscape and Child of the Mountain by Paul Klee, an untitled chromium relief by Hans Arp, and a fancy bottle top wrought by Author Laurence Vail, her first husband...