Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...possible danger in such a plan is that a particular House, over a period of time, might build up a reputation as the stronghold for Democrats, or mountain climbers, or bridge players. For a certain House to be known for a particular activity would not be necessarily indesirable, but the situation could become extreme. A simple remedy of rotating the various organizations' offices, however, would effectively solve the problem of ingrained stereotypes...
...campaigning in Miami. "It's absolutely insane," said an aide, "but he just can't stop." Estes started talking to mechanics in an airport hangar, kept it up from supermarket to street corner for 4½-hours. Then, with a quick stop to vote at the Lookout Mountain schoolhouse above Chattanooga, he flew back to Washington...
Returns trickling in from the Western and Mountain states put the G.O.P. in the lead from the outset in Arizona, Colorado and Utah, New Mexico gave Ike a heavy lead. Even atom-conscious Los Alamos, one place where Stevenson's H-bomb issue might logically have set a fuse, went for Eisenhower...
...general, Keller reports, science's discoveries have proved the Bible startlingly accurate in many checkable details. Keller cites the case of a Bible-reading British major who surprised and decimated a Turkish force in Palestine in World War I by attacking through the same narrow mountain pass which Saul and Jonathan had used to fall upon the Philistines centuries earlier. The Bible told just where to find it: "And between the passages . . . there was a sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp rock on the other side . . . the forefront of the one was situate northward over against...
...then, of course, there is the supporting cast: 68,894 people and 7,959 animals-including four ostriches, six skunks, 15 elephants, 17 fighting bulls, 512 rhesus monkeys, 800 horses, 950 burros, 2,448 American buffalo, 3,800 Rocky Mountain sheep and a sacred cow that eats flowers on cue. The film took 34 directors 160 days to make on 112 locations and 140 sets in 13 countries. And the wardrobe department alone spent $410.000 to provide 74,685 costumes and 36,092 trinkets, while Todd's makeup men claim to have glued 15,612 beards-including a number...