Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eden sought to exorcise some of the forces bedeviling Allied diplomacy. International suspicion, said he, "has unhappily always played its part in Anglo-Russian relations, and it has a habit of accumulating suspicions on their side which produce countersuspicions on ours and, before we know where we are, a mountain of suspicion is the result...
Stoyan was flown into Yugoslavia early this month, landed ten miles behind the fighting front, was driven in a captured German Volkswagen to Marshal Tito's mountain stronghold (TIME, May 22). He is the first U.S. newsman to meet Tito face to face (they talked in Serbo-Croatian), the first correspondent able to short-circuit an interpreter and talk directly with the guerrillas, the first American reporter to enter Yugoslavia at all since Pulitzer Prize Winner Daniel De Luce got in and out of the country seven months...
With the landing crack-up almost certain, Bombardier Lieut. Edward M. Gibbens, of Mountain Home, Idaho, took a crash ax, doffed his parachute, perched on the narrow catwalk of the bomb bay and started knocking the bombs loose. As the last one dropped away, Gibbens skidded on the leaking hydraulic fluid and fell. With a frantic, one-handed clutch he caught hold of a bomb rack, slowly and painfully pulled himself back to safety as other crewmen came up to help...
...South Flank. In terms of miles, U.S. troops made the biggest gains. From Minturno on the south of the line one column pushed into the little mountain town of Spigno, found only rear-guard Germans there. Another column pounded along the coast to the town of Formia...
Merrill's Epic. Stilwell's main force, by this time about 50 miles northwest of Myitkyina, had an ace up its sleeve. A group of Merrill's Marauders were on the move. In a 23-day mountain march that was one of the epic infantry advances of the war they slid through Japanese lines in three columns, emerged north, south and west of Myitkyina...