Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...middle 505 and tall for a Chinese (about 5 ft. 8 in.), Lo Jui-ching was born in Nanchung, in mountain-girded Szechwan. His parents belonged to a class he has since all but exterminated: the landlords. Trained in the famed...
...Algeria, moderates were not to be found, and the only sounds Nationalists made were gunshots. Touring the Aures mountain battleground, new Governor General and Minister Resident Robert Lacoste met Foreign Legionnaires who had just fought their way out of an ambush. In one of the bitterest battles of Algeria's little, undeclared war, eight Legionnaires and 48 rebels had died...
...Steel has two small Minnesota taconite plants at Mountain Iron and Virginia, Minn, that ship 500,000 tons yearly, is planning a huge new plant near by to boost annual production to more than 10 million tons...
...sturdy asset to her husband. She is a charming hostess, a good housekeeper, and an ornament to any political gathering. Not long after her marriage, she quit her successful interior designing business. Life with Lausche, she discovered, was career enough: "It's like being married to a mountain. There's no use trying to move him or domesticate him. He works, works, works all the time...
...Senate floor speech Saltonstall said he hoped the Senate would "not make a mountain out of a molehill" over McCarthy's charges. He explained that Aldrich had at first refused to sign because he thought doing so would be "inappropriate" and redundant...