Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kris Berg of Norway, competing on his own in the Gibson Trophy race Sunday, and using techniques the Norwegian underground taught him in fighting the Germans during the war, left a field of 40 16 long seconds behind to win the two-race series on Cranmore Mountain...
...refused to believe scouts who were sent to recapture him. Finally he returned, immediately got nervous too. Kieran launched into a list of ten new questions. "From where does this line come: 'Night's candles are burn t out and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops'?" Stone pondered, perspired, gave up. Coe knew the answer: Romeo and Juliet. After that he stayed one question ahead. But on the last question he said the circumference of the earth was 27,000 miles. Stone got it right: 25,000 miles. The two had finished...
...Communist ogre. When reminded that in London Nenni had spoken out against a merger with the Communists, they snapped: "That was on an odd day of the month. On even days he's for [it]." Declared a like-minded right-wing socialist in New York: "This mountain will give birth to a little left-wing mouse...
...Seeking a landmark, a reckoning mountain...
General Dwight D. Eisenhower, whose name had just been given to a mountain in Canada (TIME, Jan. 21), was presented with the chance of a conversationalist's lifetime by Senator Edwin C. Johnson, who told him Colorado hoped to honor him the same way. "You have Pikes Peak now," said the General, fielding the opportunity one-handed, "and you want Ike's Peak...