Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...legend of Sid Tussie's education. It is a classic. Taken out of the novel of which it is the finest part, it is one of the best stories of childhood in American literature. Sid Tussie lives in a clear-eyed, clear-headed wonderland of woods and mountain people, innocent as rain, dodging the occasional attempts of his drunken kinspeople to kill him dead, and watching them-how they drink, dance, ride mules, fight and keep out of jail-with such sharpness that their archaic Kentucky highland talk is truer in his recording of it than...
...Fifth, like the Eighth, laid down a barrage, the most concentrated of the Italian campaign. All one day 300 Allied planes shuttled between their south Italian runways and the narrow mountain sector around Mignano, gave the Germans a galling taste of nonstop bombing and strafing. At 5:30 p.m. the land guns opened up, did not rest during the night...
...kinfolks . . . walked in the procession behind with their arms around their girls' backs. ... It was the greatest bit of excitement that I had ever seen, just to walk in the great procession and hear the people laugh and talk. . . . Before we had gone far up on the mountain, Brother Baggs . . . said: 'Brothers and sisters, let us sing Beulah Land!' If you don't think it's hard to climb a mountain and sing, you try it one of these days. Try it when the July sun comes down upon your back with blisterin heat...
...They lifted the coffin over the grave hole while Grandpa pulled the flag from over the coffin. They lowered Uncle Kim down into the mountain earth to the bottom of his shallow grave. . . . Now the great procession of people moved down the mountain faster than they had climbed...
...walked beside of Grandpa a-holdin to his hand. Many sang songs as we walked down the mountain, a mountain so steep that it made the knees creak to hold us back...