Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meeting was going along fine. Roy Acuff fiddled The Great Speckled Bird, with his Smoky Mountain Boys backing him up in good old stomping mountain style. Carroll Reece flapped out his long tongue, grabbed a fiddle, and got in the act. But when Reece grabbed the microphone and started to speak, a rotten egg sailed out of the night. It hit him in the back. Two tomatoes, another egg, and a lemon spattered down. Acuff was hit in the side with a grapefruit...
...Communist Party, less than 2,000 strong before the war, has swelled to 500,000. Many of the nouveau Reds simply wanted their go at baksheesh. Until recently the new regime sold exit visas for $5,000 to $10,000. Officials and just plain Communists crowded the mountain resorts, gambling millions of lei at the casinos...
Volunteer Firemen. The history of the Moina Michael commemorative was fairly typical. About 75% of recent stamps, commemorating everything from the Palomar Mountain Observatory to volunteer firemen, were based on sketches submitted by Congressmen or their constituents. But when the busy Bureau designers are given a slightly freer hand, as with the Fort Kearny commemorative to be issued next week, they do not do perceptibly better...
Anatolian peasants saw an airplane come through a narrow opening in the hills, soar down a long valley until it approached a mountain closing the end, make an 180-degree turn and glide back up the valley until it landed in a flat field. When the peasants reached the plane, they found only two dogs inside...
Ernie Johnson tracked this float ore to its source, high on the mountain face, where there was an abandoned gold mine, hopefully named Jewel...