Word: mountain
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...NATIONAL CHARACTER of the Basques is defined by territory, by language and by blood, and they are clearly distinguishable from the Spanish and the French. Geographically, the nucleus of the Basque nation, stretches across both sides of the Pyrenees mountains. The Roman historian Strabo referred to the Basques as "fierce mountain warriors" who "wear no helmets in battle." One-fifth of the territory was integrated into the French domain at the end of the French Revolution in 1789. The remaining four-fifths, the states of Alaba, Bizcaya, Gipuzcoa and Nabarra were annexed by Spain in 1839 after the first Carlist...
...winning ballet by prominent American composer Aaron Copland. The ballet is a charming work which captures all of the joyful and apprehensive emotions of a young pioneer farmer and his bride-to-be in the Pennsylvania hills during the early part of the last century. The flavor of the mountain folk tradition is so pungent that one is nearly drawn to begin foot-stomping and hand-clapping...
...jury that they had intentionally played poorly after gamblers plied them with bribes (up to $10,000) and threatened their families. A trial jury later acquitted eight players, including Shortstop Risberg and Outfielder Joe ("Say it ain't so, Joe") Jackson, of conspiracy charges, but Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis suspended them from the game for life. Risberg retired to his Minnesota dairy farm to brood. Six years later, he decided to try to sweep the slate clean with a declaration that he and other White Sox players had paid Ty Cobb's Detroit Tigers to "slough...
...handful of this country's standard, liberal newspapers. Another handful of "your basic liberal magazines"--The Progressive, Nation, New Republic, Ramparts, The New Yorker--were keeping their eyes, or at least those of their free-lance stringers, on what was going on in the mountain hollows that line the path of a stream called Clover Fork in Eastern Kentucky...
...Here is mostly large chunks of miners' dialogue and still photos that avoid the sensational. Reid and Woolley portray sensitive, shrewd, brave mountain folks instead of hillbilly pawns. Like a similar documentary four decades ago on Alabama tenant farmers by James Agee and Walker Evans, We Be Here was rejected by the editors who commissioned it. Fortunately, another unabashedly subjective book on some not-so-famous people deserving of praise has finally made it into print...