Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well-educated (a Rhodes scholar, he was president of the University of Arkansas from 1939 to 1941), handsome, well-to-do and as friendly as an Arkansas hound pup. Two years ago Bill Fulbright shook hands into Congress by "visiting" with practically everybody in a ten-county Ozark mountain district...
Favored Germans who were sitting out the war in spas and mountain resorts trembled as the Party's hunt for manpower spread. They knew that Dr. Ley's speech about "blue-blooded swine" (TIME, July. 31) was no accident, that in the frenzied Nazi search for a new scapegoat to bear the blame for losing the war, the Junker was fast taking the place...
Jake, Puss, Shorty. Sometimes exhausted mules slipped or fell from steep mountain paths. The muleskinners rescued them at the risk of their own necks. The 'skinners formally named their charges Jake, Puss, Shorty. They called them, "You bastard, you sonofabitch." They defended them passionately from any outside criticism...
...cold north wind was lashing under a bleak sky. Up a steep ravine we toiled again, and plunged through a glorious mountain field, sprinkled with red flowers, silvery brooks and green pine woods, with the wind roaring before us like a boisterous symphony. Above the woods, 4,000 feet up, I finally found the staff of the 8th Corps and Major Randolph Churchill...
...Misery Mountain. Thus began my second pokret, a seven-day affair along the 5,500-ft. Yadovnik (Misery) Mountain...