Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Supplies, Engineers, Fighters. His answer was in the endless columns of U.S. supply trucks, jeeps, tanks, artillery and bulldozers rumbling down from Balete Pass through dust and mud. It was in the roads punched out of mountain sides while the battles went on, in the bridges built, the airstrips rolled, the lumber cut, the dirt hauled by the engineers. He would also find it in the muddy, lined, unshaven faces of the infantrymen, seasoned fighters who beat mountains, jungles and rain as well as Japanese. What the Americans had better than Bushido was fighting heart and unmatched ability to fight...
...East is not a ritual, but simply oil to grease the machinery of human relationships. The people of the East need from us the physical aids . . . science to heal diseased bodies and to remove a crushing labor and to provide more food. We are like men digging . . . through a mountain...
...None ever found it. But in the early 1880s John Brognard Okie, a son of President Lincoln's physician, came to Wyoming, resolved to turn the Lost Cabin country into a different kind of bonanza. He began running sheep along cottonwood-shaded Badwater Creek and in the high mountain meadows beyond...
...Manila's water supply system when 38th Division troops captured Wawa Dam intact. Santa Fe fell, though some 30,000 enemy troops stood ready to fight it out on the fertile floor of the Cagayan Valley. On Mindanao Jap units were being driven back into the unexplored mountain jungles east of the Sayre Highway...
...Between these extremes are such items as Philip Evergood's Rubber Raft, a war footnote in which two helpless, parched men sprawl on a raft surrounded by voracious sharks; Atlantic Pastorale, a surrealist ballet-in-seaweed by Leon Kelly; Darrel Austin's spellbinding half-dream of a mountain lion, The Great Beast; William Cropper's satirical Art Patrons...