Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cliffie nominations for the Women's Auxiliary Cheer Squad have been pouring into the Crimson building all week. Under the mountain of filled-out forms, and with a heavy weekend coming on, CRIMSON editors have found it necessary to extend the nomination deadline from tomorrow until 5 p.m. Monday...
...matrilinear tradition, they moved in on his mother-in-law, Ason Tso, near Many Farms, 150 miles east of the Grand Canyon. Mary Grey-Eyes, 35, a broad-faced, well-built mother of two, seemed fit despite chronic gall-bladder disease. But one Saturday afternoon, as towering Black Mountain's shadow reached across Carson Mesa to the comfortless, slab-sided hogan, the pain in Mary's side got worse than ever. Soon she was nauseated and feverish; then her headache became unbearable...
...years, the Roncallis have been working in the vineyards and wheat fields around the village of Sotto il Monte (Beneath the Mountain), eight miles from the Lombardy town of Bergamo. Like his brothers and sisters, Angelo grew up to the life of a farmer-"At the age of ten." the 86-year-old church bell ringer remembered last week, "that boy worked in the fields with the sobriety of a grown...
...determine what this struggle will have served, but in any case now it serves nothing. Surely they can, if they want to, continue outrages, set up ambushes on the roads, hurl grenades in marketplaces, sneak into villages at night to kill a few unfortunate people. They can hide in mountain caves, go in groups from djebel to djebel and hide arms in rock crevices to use when the opportunity arrives. But the outcome is not there. Nor is it in the political dreams and eloquent propaganda of refugees abroad...
...time to stew over politicians anyway? In a roughhewn society that plays as hard as it pioneers, anyone with a yen for variety can leave Vancouver in the morning, go skiing on nearby Grouse Mountain, play golf on the banks of the Fraser in the afternoon, then top off the day with a cooling dip in English...