Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beneath the black waters of the Aleutian Deep the earth moved. Some 15,000 feet down and 70 miles southeast of Unimak Island (see cut), nature was building a mountain which living men might never see. But the secondary results were visible enough: 1) quivering squiggles which are the seismographic record of earthquake violence; 2) a series of tsunami* ringing out from the earthquake center, carrying death & destruction to Hawaii, spreading alarm across the Pacific...
Bursts of gunfire sent herds of scrawny goats scampering along the rocky hillsides. Amman, dusty mountain capital of mountainous Trans-Jordan, last week woke out of its normal torpor to its most exciting holiday in a quarter of a century. Stocky (5 ft. 5 in.) Emir Abdullah was home from London with a British treaty recognizing Trans-Jordan (area 30,000 sq. mi.; pop. about 300,000) as a sovereign and independent state...
...nearly two years Tito's men hunted their arch-enemy General Draja Mihailovich through the crags and ravines of the Bosnian mountains. Early in the winter they discovered his snowbound hideout, kept him on ice until the thaw, then pounced. Last week Tito's Government triumphantly announced that they had captured the bushy-bearded, bespectacled Chetnik leader sitting in a mountain cave, guarded by only eleven soldiers of his once-powerful army...
Cried a woman: "Thar's a burnin' mountain in the sky. Hit looks like a hillside on fire when ye burn a clearin' in the spring...
Cried the Reverend John Whetstone: "It's only an aurora borealis." But most people in the Kentucky mountain town of Blakesburg were terrified. They had never seen or heard of an aurora borealis. Mountain-born and Bible-bred, they thought that the apocalyptic spasms of light which possessed their night sky meant the End of Time. They acted accordingly...