Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...claim him. Buffalo Bill dead and enshrined would obviously be a greater civic asset than Buffalo Bill alive with one foot on the Albany Hotel bar rail. Within an hour Bill's widow accepted the city's offer of a fine free burial on Lookout Mountain. (It took five months to bore a grave in the solid rock; Denver embalmers called on all their cunning to keep Bill looking...
...first jeep ever to climb those dizzy mountain passes, where the villages perch on pinnacles and figs grow in the high valleys and the king's harem more than pays for itself, by sewing uniforms for the royal army. Harlan B. Clark (born 33 years ago in Brookfield, Ohio) was in the jeep. He and the jeep together meant that no land-not even Yemen (see map) -could henceforth be isolated from...
...months he had hesitated to shoot ten Spanish "Communists because France and several Latin American countries had asked the Spanish Government to spare them. Now the ten died before firing squads. London reported that 2,500 Moorish troops were moving into Spain to dig other resisters out of mountain hideaways...
...skier who outjumped them all, Torger ("Old Iron Legs") Tokle, used to say that if the ski jump at Steamboat Springs, Colo. were fixed up a bit, a new U.S. record could be set there. He did not live to see it: Sergeant Tokle of the skiborne 10th Mountain Division was killed in Italy...
...competitor, Norwegian-born, 36-year-old Alf Engen of Sun Valley, set the new course record at 259 feet to win the first National Ski Championships since 1942. His leap was still 30 feet short of Tokle's U.S. record jump, made off Michigan's Iron Mountain in 1942-and far short of the 300-ft. jump that Tokle had predicted for Steamboat Springs...