Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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North and east from Salerno, the Fifth moved forward, battered at the mountain gateways to the flatlands around Naples...
...Western street scenes and by some unusually vivid uses of sound (coyotes, snores, a neighing horse) and camera (scrambled focus for excitement and intoxication) to startle and amuse. John Wayne manages, more toughly if less charmingly than Gary Cooper in his early days, to create a sort of Rocky Mountain Jean Gabin. Jean Arthur, who has the brunt of the comedy to handle, is one of the most attractive handlers in the business, but undermines some of her funniest work by a growing tendency to put the horseplay before the part...
...will win." They did. They fought in mud four feet deep, often in continuous, drenching rain (the survivors of one battalion had been in action for 40 days, on 36 of which it rained). And, as in the aerial battles, which preceded the jungle and mountain fighting, individual heroism sustained and inspired the collective resistance, won the final victory...
Hough in Denver is a veteran newspaperman who has reported for TIME on a part-time basis ever since 1932. He is the author of two books on Rocky Mountain lore-headed the Colorado Writers Project which prepared a monumental local history of the state-has also lived in Wyoming, Montana and New Mexico, visited every state from the Missouri to the Pacific. And in Seattle TIME'S Paul O'Neil has covered practically every big story that has broken in the Pacific Northwest in ten years-says his newshunting has "taken him to every hamlet...
...Betty Lou Norris of Brooklyn and other Scouts had listened to lectures on Indians, went hunting rock shelters. In one shelter near New York's Kanawauke Lake, Scout Norris spied charred deer bones. She yipped to her friends; they yipped to William Henry Carr, head of Bear Mountain Trailside Museum. Inured to the "discoveries" of amateur archeologists, he went and had a skeptical look. Whereupon, knowing a prime archeological find, he saw what he thought might be the prize of the Hudson Valley region. Some items...