Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London Times has never taken second place to the Established Church in its disapproval of King Edward VIII's marriage, but it also feels obliged to keep its readers informed. Last week, on the same page with a 231-word review of a book on mountain flowers, the Times reviewed a new autobiography (TIME, Oct. 1) as follows...
...sister lied today," said a Roman Catholic seven-year-old. "She said Jesus could stand there and tell a mountain to move, and it would. She lied, because no one can do that." His father said, "Perhaps the sister merely thought Jesus could do that. She wasn't lying if she really thought so." Parents, says Liberal Hunter, should stress to their children that "it is all right to have different ideas about things...
Budding Thoreaus would bloom in Peterborough. In the clear mountain air, the astronomy department would flourish. In secret mountain lairs, organic chemists could make fortunes. And most important of all, the Administration would no longer have to worry about bringing God all the way to Harvard, for Harvard would be bringing itself part...
...days later, 90 miles away in the jungle near a mountain resort hotel, Weldy came upon Harrison again. This time Harrison was accompanied by Confidential's Managing Editor A. P. Govoni and a blonde nightclub singer, Geene Courtney, 30, onetime Miss Cheesecake of New York. The party carried guns for hunting, but as a Confidential spokesman put it, " It was a sort of a lark in the mountains; you know what I mean...
...Vice President John Nance Garner, the best sippin' whisky of all is Jack Daniel's Old Time Tennessee Sour Mash Whiskey, a drink as distinct from standard bourbon as bottled in bond is from Old Popskull. Sparingly distilled by a secret, century-old formula in a quiet mountain glen near Lynchburg, Jack Daniel's has never tried to crash mass markets, never old more than 300,000 cases a year. What makes Jack Daniel's so special is its clean, slightly smoky taste arid its smooth richness in the gullet. The secret goes back...