Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans were now backing into the Italian mountain defenses where they expected to make a major stand. Temporarily, at least, they had slowed their pursuers to a walk...
...Nazis, said Knyphausen, are preparing to use selected military units to form "islands of resistance," chiefly in the mountain regions. They mean to emulate the Partisans. Headquarters will be near Berchtesgaden, where Hitler, Mussolini, selected quislings and lesser German dignitaries can defy the Allies from the Wagnerian Berghof. Arms, supplies and lavish radio equipment are already being gathered. The radio will be used to guide a vast network of underground fanatics, enrolled under the slogan: "Join the permanent fight for European freedom...
...TIME (May 22) there appears an article mentioning a letter of Thomas Jefferson's in which he asks for a time extension on a loan. You state that this letter was "found last week in a Virginia mountain cabin." This could not possibly be true because the original of this letter has been in our possession for at least two generations...
...story is simple. A tow-blonde peasant girl (Marina Ladynina) from the forests of far-northern Russia visits the great summer fair at Moscow. There she falls in love with an impassioned young shepherd (Vladimir Zeldin) from the mountains of far-southern Russia. He is proud as a kulak because of his prize sheep. Boy & girl sing at each other enthusiastically, retire to their respective corners of Russia eager for a return bout next summer. In dead of winter, in the foggy mountain rains, the shepherd rescues three lost ladylike ewes from three wolves; his sweetheart delivers her favorite...
...Rocky Mountain area, where ticks have been carrying the fever since Indian days, people are not jittery about it. They know that only one tick in 300 is infected, that he must bite and burrow for several hours in order to transmit the infection. But in the East, where the fever has been recognized for only a dozen years, many people are afraid to walk in the woods. Recent trouble spots: 1) the District of Columbia, where three people, all bitten outside the District, have died of the disease; 2) Philadelphia, with five cases, one of whom caught the fever...