Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...name comes from a Paiute Indian word meaning "Mountain of Many People...
...Mountain of Facts...
...know there's something wrong here regardless of Collier's mountain of facts and statistics," Bains added...
...measure is signed by Franjieh -there is no guarantee that the stubborn old mountain man will do so-the way will be clear for the legislature to pick a new head of state. Because Parliament's official chamber had been sacked during the fighting and is still not secure, the deputies met in a villa, near the Beirut race track, that was supposed to be on neutral ground. The site turned out to be the scene of some of the week's bloodiest clashes...
...dazed expression and wobbly walk they have all learned. The bad guy pleading for mercy with a fist clenched behind his back, the resounding stomp of the foot on the mat as each punch is delivered--these are the basic elements of professional wrestling. Second-rate actors like Man Mountain Mike (a quarter ton of lard) and Baron Scicluna use these elements to create a theater of fake violence and feigned pain. The crowd falls for it (the hungering suspension of disbelief), and when the greatest hero (Bruno) meets the most vicious villain (Koloff) their dissembling of pain and terror...