Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political science, defined in terms of income or power, but poverty as a simple, unchanging fact of life. Told by a Norwegian woman of eighty, and compiled by journalist Dagfinn Gronoset, this narrative speaks with misleading ease of the unbelievable suffering and humiliation that Anna endured in the mountain farmlands of Scandinavia...
...Cliffe squad beat Hollins, 8-1, on Wednesday before travelling to Boone, N.C. for a match with Appalachian State. Appalachian State is located a few miles down the road from Beech Mountain, one of the South's best known ski resorts, and on Thursday there was snow covering the slopes and the courts cancelling any tennis...
...littered all along the roadside. Realizing that "granite has to be the cheapest thing in Vermont - the damn state is all granite," he struck a bargain with a stone quarry near his cabin in Winooski, Vt. They sold him waste granite for $6 per ton. "There's a mountain of it - some chunks the size of pebbles, some as big as boxcars." Then he got hold of a surplus U.S. Army ten-wheeler, bolted a gantry on top of it and went to work...
Come midnight this Saturday, the hills of Kentucky will once again bristle and stir with the sound of founding. The mountain madness of the Hatfields and the McCoys may be half a century or more dormant, but feuding over nothing-yet-everything remains the Commonwealth's peculiar pasttime...
...Kurds, an estimated 100,000 of whom are fighting under longtime Leader Mulla Mustafa Barzani, 76, are a non-Arab Moslem nation of mountain people whose ancient homeland covers parts of Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Syria and the Soviet Union. Iran has successfully integrated 650,000 of its own Kurds. Baghdad has promised the Kurds autonomy and proportionate representation in Iraq's Arab, socialist government. But Barzani has held out for independence, and since 1958, his forces have been sniping at the Iraqi army from mountain redoubts near the Iranian border...