Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lesson in how to keep fit. By then Nimitz had moved his headquarters to a steel & concrete building, supposedly bombproof, overlooking the yard. Each morning he walked a mile or so before breakfast; each afternoon he played tennis (beating many a man much younger), or walked up & down Aiea Mountain, or hiked seven miles to a beach for a three-mile swim. The only man who could outwalk his chief was Spruance, chief of staff and Deputy CinCPac. On a private pistol range set up beside the building, Nimitz could outshoot most visiting marksmen...
...build up its mail-order business in the adobe villages of the plains and the distant mountain and jungle towns, Sears salesmen will probably follow the trail blazed by sellers of the Singer Sewing Machine Co. (N.J.). In many of the remote huts of farmers who still labor with oxen and wooden plows are ancient Singers now passed from mother to daughter as a family heirloom. With such people as these Sears men will leave their revered catalogue, an artifact they hope will come to mean as much in Mexico as it does in the rural...
...county regiments-the Dorsets, Devons, Durhams, York and Lanes-and the Scots and Welsh Border regiments marveled at this gaffer of the old Army, admired him in the usual unprintable phrases, gave him a cheer. They had fought their way through mountain jungles; tough fighting lay ahead before the last Jap would be driven from Burma. But they were in lush valleys...
...Congressman Gonzalez, Argentina looked like a country already at war. The railroad to Zapala carried nothing but soldiers and supplies. A network of new military roads led threateningly toward Chile. At Las Lajas, near the frontier, were barracks for an entire division. The region was teeming with ski troops, mountain artillery and airplanes. The local inhabitants were kept in alarm by officially inspired rumors that Chile was about to attack Argentina. This, said Congressman Gonzalez, was the familiar Hitler technique of pretending to be a victim in order to victimize...
...prosperous, picturesque Berkshire Mountain village of Lenox, Mass, is the last place anyone would be likely to look for a U.S. school even remotely suggestive of Dickens' wretched Dotheboys Hall. Until the recent cold wave hit, few people in Lenox knew what was really going on inside the 44-room onetime private mansion which housed the tony ($1,400 a year) Duncan School for Boys. Then the school pipes froze and a plumber was called...