Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Winston and Lady Churchill, aglow with good spirits, stepped outside briefly to greet sundry well-wishers. "Wave, dear!" said Lady Churchill. In happy compliance, Churchill flashed his famous V-sign to signify his victory that day over 81 momentous years. All week long, post office trucks had brought a mountain of greetings and gifts to Sir Winston. A special messenger, U.S. Ambassador Winthrop W. Aldrich, had personally delivered a birthday present from Dwight Eisenhower: a three-inch gold medallion, struck off in the U.S. Mint, bearing a likeness of Churchill taken from Ike's own portrait...
...best scenes came from the isolated mountain village of Pine (boasted pop. 250), where three embattled women tongue-lashed Murrow and a member of the school board in what was obviously a long-sought opportunity to air their very real grievances. The film wound up with a televised debate between Alabama's Senator Lister Hill and New York Representative Ralph Gwinn that contained nearly as much nonsense as the preceding 70 minutes had clarity and intelligence...
Lack of snow has forced postponement of the four event ski meet scheduled for Cannon Mountain at Franconia, N.H., this weekend. It was to be the first meet of its kind ever held on Cannon Mountain...
...profit on't is, I know how to curse." Between Caliban's curses and nonstop Ariel flights of the liberal imagination, most writing on the Negro problem in America makes highly unprofitable reading, in the view of talented Negro Novelist James (Go Tell It on the Mountain) Baldwin. This sheaf of personal essays, written with bitter clarity and uncommon grace, is an effort to retrieve the Negro from the abstractions of the do-gooders and the no-goods...
There are famous figures such as Mad Anthony Wayne who appears regularly and in several guises-most notably as a hell-for-leather horseman on a brimstone nag, riding around New York's Storm King Mountain whenever a storm approaches. There are bloodcurdling ghosts, and friendly ghosts, and even some sad little ghosts. The South, with its romantic and blood-drenched history, produces surpassingly satisfying ghosts, but there are other excellent entries, too. Samples: ¶ Charles ("Brickbat Charlie") Dorsey, a murderous debauchee, and his ripsnorting consort, a Hungarian slut named Rose Mataz ("Razzmatazz"), lived it up lecherously and lethally...