Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mount Carvalho one day last week to gather hay. "I was looking at the sky and hoping the sun would drive the fog away," she said later. "Then I heard a great hissing and roaring overhead. I thought the mountain below me had exploded." For the next few seconds, shock after shock rent the earth all around her, sending ribbons and streams of flame and debris in all directions. "It was terrible," she said, "but the silence that followed was more terrible still. The birds sang no more and all around me they lay dead...
...grimmest air disaster. Shortly before she heard them roaring above her head, twelve U.S.-built Thunderjets of the Portuguese air force left the Ota air base to take part in an air force show to the north at Coimbra. None of them could see the fog-shrouded mountain on which Maria stood beneath them. As they hurtled forward in tight formation, the four top planes cleared the peaks without harm. The eight planes below them plowed head-on into the mountain, killing all eight pilots and reducing Portugal's jet strength in one blow...
...counters to clacking. At every stop he sounded more and more like a campaigner. He often had a special bow for his White House "chief of staff," former New Hampshire Governor Sherman Adams (who turned out in Bermuda-length shorts to play golf with Ike at Whitefield's Mountain View course). At Concord he explained to a crowd of 20,000 gathered around the old (1819) granite State Capitol that Adams was always lecturing the presidential staff on the glories of New Hampshire. After assuring the voters of New Hampshire that he believed every word of Adams' tales...
...effects was the world premiere of Ferde (Grand Canyon Suite} Grofé's latest effort as a musical local-colorist, Hudson River Suite, in Washington, D.C.'s leafy Carter Barren Amphitheater. Its five movements describe 1) The River, with quickened tempo as it surges past Bear Mountain, and broad majesty as it reaches the Palisades; 2) Hendrick Hudson, the intrepid explorer, portrayed in horns and woodwinds and thundering percussion, often wistful because of his tragic end; 3) Rip Van Winkle, a clever description of the Washington Irving tale, in which Rip whistles for his dog (which answers...
...before a mounted Cossack captain and beg for help while an Odessa mob looted and wrecked the family store. "At your service," the officer said, touched his lemon-yellow chamois glove to his cap, and rode off passionlessly, "not looking right or left . . . as though through a mountain pass, where one can only look ahead." Torn with pity and terror for his father, the boy was also stirred by a sneaking admiration for the Cossack, with his instinctive animal grace and his life of action and violence. This paradox shaped Babel's life and writing. Before he was mysteriously...