Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...summoned to the same conference. Three weeks ago the British leader had called Tito an "outstanding leader," said, regretfully, that Peter's War Minister, Mihailovich, had trafficked with the enemy. Recently, too, Captain Randolph Churchill, the Prime Minister's son, had parachuted into Tito's mountain headquarters...
...This year, for the second wartime season, major-league baseball has been forbidden by Czar Kenesaw Mountain Landis to spend money on southern training camps and fancy exhibition schedules. The result will be a training view of big leaguers for many parts of the U.S., as follows...
...Roosevelt. But when they are asked to suppose the war will be over although the peace remains to be made, the Republican showing is big enough, discounting for the Solid South, to suggest the possibility of a Republican victory. In New England, the Middle Atlantic, East North Central and Mountain States the Republicans run substantial pluralities (these pluralities do not mean the Republicans would carry every State in each group...
...Navy tanker in the Central Pacific: China, with Loretta Young. The hero blows up a mountain, snuffing out a Jap division, to the skepticism of the audience...
...narrow mountain passes dug-in Japs threw back tank, infantry and artillery attacks. Others burrowed through jungle and mountain areas considered, impassable in any kind of weather, trapped the 7th Indian Division by severing its communication lines. At week's end, the 7th Division was still encircled; but the Japs were slowly falling back under a flanking threat from West African troops who had wormed eastward...