Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Americans liked the kindly, unassuming intellectual who was Brazil's Emperor -and he liked them. He sampled Cincinnati's beer, explored Kentucky's Mammoth Cave, compared San Francisco's Golden Gate to Rio's mountain-girt Guanabara Bay. In Boston he had long talks with Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier; when he came back to the Philadelphia exposition, Alexander Graham Bell showed him his newly invented telephone. "My God," said Dom Pedro, "it talks...
...Tennessee Valley Authority had to touch off 681 tons of TNT before Lect's instruments could feel it, though. The blast ripped out one side of a mountain to supply crushed rock for a TVA dam. Present seismographs, says Leet, have never recorded an atom bomb explosion...
First Officer Cyril Senior was at the conn, approaching Rio's broad, mountain-ringed harbor at about 15 knots when, without a hint of danger, came the sensation that strikes terror into every sailor's bones: a sharp, grinding noise forward. The 'Magdalena shuddered to a stop, hard aground on a reef so shoal that breakers creamed over...
...World War II infantryman who sweated out the world's most thorough rifle instruction in training camp knows, the common sense of the 17703 became doctrine. Pratt leaves it to his publishers, in a jacket blurb, to add that "the national tradition that included Daniel Boone and the Mountain Man . . . would naturally produce high-altitude precision bombing, and the Task Force in a later century." Pratt himself concentrates on the infantryman...
...workers felt, "If he wasn't killed by the rocks, he would probably have drowned in the water." Joseph Dodge, manager of the Appalachian Mountain Club and rescue chief, claimed that he couldn't have lived more than 15 minutes. "It may be days before we find him," Dodge said. "He's probably far below the ice field." Another searching crew will set out today...