Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...frost woke me and my two Partisan guards at dawn on May 26 in the primeval forest of the Yavorusha Mountain. We climbed the ankle-deep carpet of dry leaves up to the top, and all around us the thick highland woods teemed with refugees and lowing cattle...
...slow fight through northern Italy began to speed up again. Both the Fifth and Eighth Armies made their most rapid advances in weeks, passed Arezzo in the center, on the west drew close to the German Arno River line, outpost of the Gothic mountain line where the Germans hope to stand and hold...
...year Amal lived in pampered boredom in a Syrian mountain villa. Then Cairo's footlights called irresistibly. She divorced the Emir, hurried to Egypt, married a film director, divorced him within a year. By that time she had a new career: she was well on the way to be coming the Arabic world's Hedy Lamarr...
...Beiunslcis. Mr. Moses had been wildly provocative. Most city planners, he snorted, are "subsidized lamas in their remote mountain temples." Their plans may be beautiful. But they are impossible without a social revolution. Many of the planners are emigres who do not understand U.S. conditions, are much too eager to show Americans how to tear down their cities. Moses called these planners the Beiunskis because many of their suggestions begin with "Bei uns [in our country] we do things much better...
...Combat Rations and Field Rationing Procedure" provided a title for another demonstration, and a meal for the students, as Major John W. Brower, Commandant of the Cooks and Bakers School, displayed samples of A, B, C, D, K, Mountain, Jungle, Bail-out, and Life-raft rations. Major Brower and his assistant, Lt. H. C. Gleve, also showed many types of dehydrated foods. Sgt. Edward Mortimer's field kitchen truck supplied, as a concluding feature, a complete supper for all students, which was enjoyed by all, despite Major Brower's announcement that it had been made entirely from dehydrated foods...