Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communist deception. Cuban exiles and other intelligence sources were desperately warning that not all the missile equipment was being put aboard ships for return to the Soviet Union. Instead, they claimed, much of it was being stored in a long-prepared system of underground arsenals in Cuba's mountain fastnesses. To be sure, many of these sources had an ax to grind; they were embittered by the prospect of Castro's being allowed to survive, with or without Soviet missiles. But they had been startlingly accurate in their warnings of the missile buildup even before President Kennedy...
...came aerial films with truly worrisome signs. They showed roads being slashed through tall timber, Russian-made tents mushrooming in remote places. The order went out to photograph Cuba mountain by mountain, field by field and, if possible, yard by yard...
Last week, at Mount Sterling, which used to be called Little Mountain Town, the hillmen gathered for the traditional "Court Day''-marking the opening of the fall term of the county court. Many were unshaven. Their faces were criss crossed with the wounds of weather. They wore battered hats, carried pistols in their pockets. They sold their tin cans filled with rich sorghum molasses, swapped shotguns, powder horns and hunting dogs, bought snake oil, ax handles and buckets of yams. Into their midst walked the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, a man with the alliterative name...
...troops need new and better equipment to equalize Red China's terrain advantage. Operating from the Tibetan plateau, the Chinese have roads and airstrips only a short distance from their front lines. But the Indians must carry food and equipment on foot from forward supply depots up sheer mountain peaks too steep even for pack animals; a trip from a supply station to a frontier outpost often takes eight days. Airdrops are difficult because of the tricky mountain wind currents...
...manager hates to tell him, and not only because Mountain is a big, dumb sweetheart of a guy who looks up to the older man like he was maybe the Marquis of Queensberry. No, what is really eating the manager is the thought of all that geetus he owes to a very powerful and very nasty gambler. Without Mountain, how can he pay? And if he can't pay . .. Gruffly, the manager breaks the bad news to his man. Mountain is stupefied. "Wh-whut I gonna do now?" he mumbles. "I mean, all I know ta do is fight...