Word: mountain
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Houston's Bush, who has made a modest fortune as a Texas oilman since 1948, insists that Yarborough's "leftwing radicalism" is the basic campaign issue. In Bush's entourage is a country music group called the Black Mountain Boys, and the lyrics to one of their favorite campaign songs are: "Sun is gonna shine in the Senate some day/George Bush gonna run them liberals away...
...light. But Bush tells his audiences: "The question is not whether Yarborough got $50,000 or $5,000 or whatever he has admitted getting from Estes, but do you want a man in the U.S. Senate who was involved with Billie Sol Estes at all?" And so another Black Mountain Boys campaign favorite is: "Oh where have you gone, Billie Sol, Billie Sol?/Oh, where have you gone, charming Billie...
...Robb's membrane works best in a tank or stream of running water, where bubbles of oxygen are plentiful to draw on. Then the artificial membrane can operate as a gill does when it filters oxygen into a fish's bloodstream. Indeed, trout breathe best in mountain streams where there is plenty of oxygen in the water...
Pursuading the villagers to help them whenever possible, the Americans brought water down the side of a mountain from a spring, cleaned it out, laid plastic pipe and built a catch basin. The equipment, which cost a total of $500, was paid for by the Americans, who were later reimbursed by a St. Louis businessman, Jack Larner, who heard of their activities...
...enemies were legion, but none were so bitter as the tribesmen of the Djebel Druze, a rugged group of hills in southern Syria, where in 1954 revolt erupted after years of discontent. Shishekly, in a four-week campaign, crushed the Druzes, hammering their mountain strongholds with tanks, planes and artillery. The powerful Druze clan of the Ghazali took some of the heaviest casualties...