Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL (ABC, 2 p.m. to conclusion). Viewers get a chance to scout the opposition out of town: New Yorkers will see Baltimore at Boston; Eastern, Central and Mountain Time zones will get San Francisco at New York; the West Coast scouts Chicago at Milwaukee...
...last fall, Railroad Switchman Lyman Mintkenbaugh of Castro Valley, Calif., got a call from his brother James, 46, an Arlington, Va., real estate salesman who had recently come West and moved into a mountain retreat at Arnold, Calif...
...organization all his own. He was an effective speaker, with an affinity for alliteration; he had preached on "Women, Weddings and Wives," "Red Heads, Dead Heads and No Heads," and the "Kinship of Kourtship and Kissing." On Thanksgiving Eve 1915, Simmons took 15 friends to the top of Stone Mountain, near Atlanta, built an altar on which he placed an American flag, a Bible and an unsheathed sword, set fire to a crude wooden cross, muttered a few incantations about a "practical fraternity among men," and declared himself Imperial Wizard of the Invisible Empire of the Knights...
...population centers and in the fierce pride of rural residents who want their own school and fear the "corrupting" influence-and higher taxes-of the town school districts. The one-room school is most numerous in such Midwest states as Nebraska, Wisconsin and the Dakotas, most hardy in the mountain regions of Montana, Colorado and Nevada...
...polls next November, it has been suggested that he would make some corporation a wonderful vice president. These wags define a vice president as a man who goes to work in the morning and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 p.m. to make a mountain...