Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kinds of people hurried to his support. Palmer ("Ep") Hoyt, the new and energetic publisher of the Denver Post, backed him editorially. So, to Denver's surprise, did the Post's archenemy, the Rocky Mountain News. Most of the city's railway brotherhoods were for him. So were most of its C.I.O. unions, 300 of 412 Republican precinct committeewomen. Quigg Newton's campaign was a model of politeness. Instead of berating Old Ben (Denver wasn't exactly mad at him, it was just tired of him) Newton simply called for change...
...reach this hidden grove, European visitors from Simla, the nearest large town, had to travel two hours along mountain roads in four-man rickshas, then climb 3,000 feet down the mountain. They also had to climb up again...
...contributed a waxy "translation" of Utah's Bryce Canyon. Jane Berlandina's abstractions of the Sierra peaks were appropriately lonely and cool, inappropriately pretty. David Fredenthal had taken a pack trip into the gouged, crumpled high country of Glacier National Park. Dong Kingman had made Grand Teton Mountain burst like a cloud-breathing dragon out of the plain, but the mile-deep solidity of its pine-covered ribs had escaped...
...other picture showed a mountain of potatoes near Foley, Ala., which had been drenched with kerosene by the U.S. Government to make them unfit for human consumption. Object: to keep the price of potatoes...
Archeologist Healey was led up a mysterious trail to a place called Bonampak, where eleven ancient temples lay hidden in the jungle. The biggest was called "El Tigre" (the mountain lion). When Healey entered its inner sanctum, a live mountain lion bounded out. This pleased the Lacandones; the temple's faithful guardian...