Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Life is like a mountain railroad...
About 2 p.m., Mountain Time, the crane was wheeled away, leaving the V-2 naked, a goddess of catastrophe. Then two red flares curved up from the blockhouse. The technicians scuttled down their holes like prairie dogs...
...made public health his life's work, experiments perilous are strictly a part of routine. In 1919 "Spenny" Spencer fought bubonic plague in New Orleans; in 1922 he went to Montana to tackle Rocky Mountain spotted fever, developed a vaccine which won him a gold medal from the American Medical Association, public renown as the hero of Lloyd Douglas' novel, Green Light. Now he is elbow-deep in another (and even more important) experiment: as director of the National Cancer Institute, he heads a staff of 120 seeking the cause-and eventually cure-of cancer...
...young man to become Heavyweight Champion of the World." The best of the applicants was a nondescript Welshman, who with the help of Johnston's imagination and a dime-store bandanna emerged as Gypsy Daniels, eldest son of a gypsy king who lived at the foot of Rhondda Mountain in Wales. Jimmy also wowed New York's Chinatown with Ah Wong, a "Chinese lightweight" whose real name was Mickey Mulligan...
...even know exactly what was in the great man's mind. There was little warmth in the Lewis office, only reverence. "Some great statesman once said the heights are cold," John L. orated in 1940. "I think that is true. The poet said, 'Who ascends to the mountain's top finds the loftiest peaks encased in mist and snow...