Word: mountaineers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Swimming in these rivers proves nothing about piranhas; not every square foot of the Amazon River system is infested by them, any more than every patch of our Rockies is covered with mountain lions. Our guides also bathed every day-generally toward the middle of the rivers where the water flowed freely...
...claimed his body when Cody died while visiting Denver in 1917, although Bill made his home at Cody, Wyo., the town he had founded, and stipulated in his will that he be buried on nearby Cedar Mountain...
...remains out from under this twelve feet of cold concrete if you have to quarry me out." So, reasoned his grandson, would William F. Cody have reacted to his final resting place on Lookout Mountain outside Denver. Cody, Wyo., diehards have never succeeded in rustling the U.S. cavalry scout's body out from under all that concrete thoughtfully poured by Colorado officials,* but this summer they have managed to bring the feud to something like a draw with an authentic re-creation of the Old West featuring "Buffalo Bill's" own collection of Western painting...
...German V-2 base at Peenemünde who later moved to the U.S. to run an aircraft supply business, then disappeared in Africa in July 1964, while delivering a twin-engined Beechcraft to the Congo; when a native came across the wreckage 9,000 ft. up Cameroon Mountain, just south of Nigeria, and the British Foreign Office reported identifying the body...
Traditionally, the first novelist bursts upon the literary scene like a day-old volcano-exploding platitudes, scattering an unbreathable ash of adjectives, devouring cash advances like sacrificial maidens. The noisy thing may turn out to be a mountain or a molehill, but on the chance of producing a verbal Vesuvius most publishers annually sponsor a series of these fictional eruptions, timing them to coincide with the great silence that descends on the book business between July 4 and Labor...