Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Look Homeward, Angel. In Long Beach, Calif., Victor Peterson sued for the custody of his four children, claiming that Mrs. Peterson, fearful lest the coastal regions slide into the sea, had fled with her off spring to the sanctuary of a mountain belonging to an evangelist named Everett...
...slow and inconclusive on the ground. In some places the Germans attacked, won back a few mountain positions from the Fifth Army; in others the Allies attacked, won a few hundred yards from the Germans. The net result was still deadlock in months-old positions...
Kingpin. Kenesaw Mountain Landis almost always wore a scowl, never pulled a punch. When he became the $42,500-a-year kingpin of organized baseball in 1920, the game reeked of the Black Sox scandal. He promptly decreed that the eight Chicago players involved, although acquitted by a civil court, be barred from the game for life. From that solid beginning, he ruled supreme...
Author Werfel's personal credo: everything in the universe has meaning. The world is "a creation of spirit and love," and man can realize God's existence without being able to understand His Being, "just as one might touch a mountain without being able to embrace...
Karski was sent to France. With a Polish prince, a young lieutenant and a guide, he went to the Tatra Mountains in the Carpathian range. They posed as a skiing party, never speaking to passersby, sleeping in mountain caves until they reached the Hungarian border. Karski met an underground agent in a border town, was motored to Budapest, hidden in a hospital, given papers to prove he had been in Budapest since the beginning of the war. He took the Simplon-Orient Express to France, six weeks of freedom, and talks with General Sikorski...