Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cairo last week Lieut. Colonel Vladimir Dedier of the Partisans gave some old friends among the correspondents later news of his wife. Major Olga Dedier of the Medical Corps had been hit in the left shoulder by a bomb fragment during an engagement on Bosnia's Green Mountain last June. Marshal Tito was wounded that day, too, and the Germans almost surrounded and annihilated four of his best divisions. Vladimir saw Olga fall and ran to pull her into a ditch, out of reach of the Stukas...
...muddy mountain front, General Dwight Eisenhower himself played the part of apologist for the campaign which he was soon to leave for a bigger one. Flanked by the Fifth Army's Mark Clark and other high officers, the well-spoken man who was still Mediterranean commander in chief talked to correspondents. He took a swing at "armchair critics," then conceded that all had not gone according to plan. His argument covered familiar ground...
...social studies Black Mountain, instead of expecting students to decant social knowledge from the cobwebbed classics, encourages them to moonshine their own product from the process of living together in a closely knit community. Students help the faculty's Board of Fellows run the college...
Everybody gets physical exercise by helping to run a 146-acre college farm. Recently the college opened on the campus a little mica mine from which the students are producing for the U.S. Government. The students and faculty built Black Mountain's only notable building, the local stone-and-transite study hall in which each Mountaineer has a private study cubicle. Bedrooms hold three or four students each. Food is simple and self-served. Except on Saturday nights, everybody wears work clothes...
...Wunsch. Drafted for the sixth successive year as Black Mountain's Rector (chief but not full-time executive) is softspoken, stocky William Robert ("Bob") Wunsch. A top-flight drama teacher and coach, he is one of the mountaineers whom John Andrew Rice (TIME, Nov. 23, 1942), led in revolt from standard education a la Rollins College, Florida...