Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such episodes, Prime Minister Nehru warned Parliament of "a creeping in of violence in our public activities. How do we produce the atmosphere that results in this?" He had hardly finished speaking when violence broke out again, this time in the pleasant little town of Kalka, among the mountain foothills of Simla. There, police, frightened and outnumbered by an attacking mob of 1,500 people armed with stones and bottles, fired point-blank into the crowd. The toll: five dead, a score critically injured...
When it was all over, Missionary Devitt was sure that he had failed. Then two terrorists ran into town and surrendered. With them they brought hopeful news: many others also wanted to surrender, but were being prevented by their leaders from coming down the mountain...
...Western expeditions in the 1840s. His reports to the Government were written with the help of his talented wife; the first two were brought out by several book publishers of the day and became enormously popular during the gold rush. They were, in fact, indispensable, because while many a mountain man had scoured the West before Frémont, no one had observed it so well, mapped it so accurately, measured so methodically the temperatures and elevations. It was the difference between men looking for skins and a man bent on showing that the U.S. could and should expand quickly...
...Indians were apt at any time to take the warpath, Frémont persisted in carrying out his mission to the letter. When the Indians tried to use bluff, he bluffed back, and won. He won and kept for a lifetime the regard of Kit Carson and other mighty mountain men-proof enough that he had the courage and frontier skills to go with his looks and brains...
Author Hersey, born in Tientsin in 1914, raised in China for the first ten years of his life, conjures up the flowering mists, brooding mountain masses and gorge-shadowed surfaces of the Yangtze as if from a child's vivid book of memories. Equally vivid and enlightening is the image of two cultures once fingertip close in friendship, destined by later history to draw back and ball their fists in sad and bitter enmity...