Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when the time drew near for Hideki Tojo to take the stand last week, the atmosphere changed. It meant that the end was in sight. The defendants ate less. They strained for a look at Fujiyama. To see the sacred mountain at year's end meant luck...
...foehn* is a warm, dry wind that tumbles, sometimes with landslide suddenness, down the northern slopes of the Bavarian Alps. In winter and early spring, as it sweeps across Bavaria, it melts the snow and brings to the landscape a strange, bluish haze. German mountain-folk hold to an ancient belief that the foehn also brings sickness and melancholia in its blast...
...where it had long been expected. There was a certain relief that Soviet intentions regarding Greece, never more than half-veiled, were fully out in the open again. The Soviet catspaws in the Balkans, Albania, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria, would no longer bother to hide their affiliations with the "Markos Mountain Government" (as the Moscow radio called it). But the announcement had been adroitly timed to follow the break-up of the London conference; it was supposed to convince lukewarm supporters of the Marshall Plan that Europe's mess could never be cleaned...
...date of departure, had been kept a close secret. . . . Tanks, armoured cars, lorries, mule trains, mountain artillery . . . moved in good order [marking]thebeginningofaneleven-day march. . . . Almost every yard of the 70-mile road . . . will bring the hazard of ambush by tribesmen who are still under the influence of the Fakir...
...deep, swift Río Minero had seemed as permanent and reassuring as Thornton Wilder's bridge of San Luis Rey. It was made of wood, suspended from steel cables. Across the 100-ft. span, donkey carts rattled, bringing produce to market. Across it, campesinos and the mountain people trudged to Pauna for the Saturday fiestas...