Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scooped out of the surrounding sea, to its determination to ring Communist China with bases. Sixty miles northwest of Manila, overlooking the calm blue wa ters of Bataan's Subic Bay, the U.S. flag was raised over land that only five years ago was an impenetrable mixture of mountain, swamp and jungle, swarming with pythons. The new Cubi Point Naval Air Station is the Navy's largest air station in Asia, and a major addition to SEATO's chain of defense...
...clear mountain flood of [Gandhi's] spiritual influence . . . lost itself in the desert sands of Nehru's day?" demanded Vermont's Republican Senator Ralph Flanders. Today U.S. views range from Justice Douglas' conviction that Nehru is "the most effective opponent of Communism in Asia" to A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany's belief that Nehru is an aide and ally of Communist imperialism-"in fact and in effect, if not in diplomatic verbiage...
...Bavarian mountain resort of Berchtesgaden, where Adolf Hitler used to hole up in his eagle's-nest retreat, a small, grey-haired woman of 60 got notice to get out of her $2.80-a-week room in a shabby row of flats. She was none other than Hitler's sister Paula, who has long gone by the name of Paula Wolf. Paula was not in arrears on her rent, but her landlord seemed to fear that she soon might be. Reason: as the only survivor of Hitler's immediate family. Fraülein Wolf has long hoped...
...idea that is not uncommon among U.S. horse trainers. Nashua, the millionaire thoroughbred, along with many a competitor, shuns tap water, drinks only Mountain Valley Water, a bottled mineral elixir from Hot Springs, Ark. Some trainers think the spring water tastes better to horses, is good for equine kidneys. Horses are occasionally shipped to Hot Springs itself, where they can run at Oaklawn Park while taking heavy dosages on home ground...
Most of the pilots were scientists-chiefly meteorologists, electronics engineers, aerodynamicists-who devoted their spare time and their rainy hours to such pursuits as lectures by Geophysicist Joachim Kuettner on "A New Investigation of Stratospheric and Tropospheric Airflow in Powerful Mountain Waves," or "Research on the Transport of Freezing Nuclei and on Atmospheric Turbulence by Means of a Sailplane...