Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile full winter descended, without warning, on the Rocky Mountain states. It began snowing in Utah, Nevada and Montana, and the worst blizzard in a decade roared down on Colorado. Hunters were trapped, cars stalled, trains delayed and the intermountain sugar-beet harvest was almost completely disrupted...
...belief in principle. (He revealed his credo during his speech last week: "There is an injunction contained in the Constitution of Vermont. ... It calls for 'a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. . . .' ") An anti-New Dealer, he often refers to the flaming individualism of Vermont's Green Mountain Boys, some of whom were his ancestors...
...weigh the sites: New York is a terrifying city. ... A great spectacle of power but also of disorder. Flushing .Meadows: the practical goals are seemingly attained. But that is not enough.. . . Feeling, in the last analysis, leads man by the nose. . . . Ridge field, Amawalk, Blue Mountain: seen from an airplane these desolate territories strike one with anguish, foretelling a fatal adventure marked with the sign of death. . . . White Plains, Greenwich, Round Hills: ... a privileged region . . . polished and policed. . . . The region 'breathes.' Here one feels is a place where one can camp...
...pried into the Dick family affairs until John Dick's crudely hacked body, minus legs, arms and head, was found one day last March on a mountain side a few miles from Hamilton. He had disappeared from his cousin's house, where he lived, a week or so before, on March...
Everywhere they saw young Germans, eager to rebuild, struggling against a mountain of wreckage, physical and spiritual, left by the Nazis. At the partially rebuilt Technische Hochschule at Darmstadt, students took lecture notes on their knees because there were no desks; many spent their vacations last summer recovering laboratory equipment from the rubble. Nazi book-burnings and Allied bombs had combined to decimate the textbook supply; at Frankfurt alone, half a million books were lost during raids. The circulating library of the University of Munich is in one small basement room...