Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scene was sickeningly familiar: an ambush on a twisting mountain road, gunfire and death. This time, however, the victim was not a hapless villager caught in the middle of sectarian strife. He was Kamal Jumblatt, 59, leader of Lebanon's Muslim left and feudal landlord whose power base was rooted among the 150,000 members of the Druze sect. His assassination last week threatened to reopen the bloody civil war in Lebanon, which since November has been living under a "peace" enforced by three divisions of Syrian troops...
...create a crisis atmosphere. Christians in East Beirut fired rifles in joy, and Syrian troops had to keep gangs of Muslim leftists from setting up the kind of barricades that had divided the city at the height of the fighting. Outside the 300-year-old family castle in the mountain town of Mukhtara, some 50,000 mourners, including Premier Selim Hoss, a Muslim, gathered in the rain for Jumblatt's funeral...
...ground in front of their thatch-roofed mud houses and selling to journeyman brokers. Now that el Exigente will buy anything he can find, they are getting as much as $1.25 per Ib.-unheard-of riches for these people. In Guatemala, Indian laborers who usually are taken from their mountain homes to coffee plantations in open trucks designed to carry cattle have taken advantage of a labor shortage to demand, and get, bus transportation...
...mask reality, just as The Lion in Winter's glittering set, fitted out with red velvet and gold-emblazoned lions, essentially masks a dramatic landscape as bleak as a snow-embalmed mountain. In this world, mistakes trigger others in an avalanche of errors, which makes retreat to hope and love impossible. "We can't stop and we can't go back. There's nothing else," Henry cries in despair. But even a drama of despair can offer testimony to the power of human endurance. At the end, when Henry and Eleanor re-mask, confronting the wreck of their lives with...
...caves that served as their home, Mao once discovered that Chiang Ch'ing had bedded down on a heap of bedbugs. Mao formally renamed the cave "Bedbug Headquarters" and helped start an "extermination campaign "against the vermin. Another time, during a difficult mountain march in a driving rainstorm, she was wearing the only rain cape in the entire army. Though it was soggy, she offered it to him-and he reluctantly accepted. (This, observes Witke, was a personal victory for her.) A little later, he removed a thermos flask of liquor from his belt and silently passed...