Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sample: Phelps's citation of Walt Disney for an honorary degree: "He labored like a mountain and brought forth a mouse...
After a tough struggle with its mountain of statistics, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics formally brought forth the minutest statistic of the week: from mid-June to mid-July, the cost of living for city workers went down 0.8%. Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins emerged from the Cabinet morgue to find this droplet impressive...
...British, who had circled Etna from Catania, joined them soon afterward. From the twisting mountain roads they could see, far in the distance, the shimmering blue of the Messina Strait...
...planes had just dive-bombed the jutting rock of Troina where it stuck up like an island amid the circling mountain peaks. Black smoke curled upward in columns, merging into one big black cloud beneath which Troina disappeared like Camelot fading into the mists. We drove our jeep around a cliff to where an ambulance had halted beneath a ledge. Beyond that no car could advance, for the road was mined. By the ambulance lay a soldier who looked up at us with the tender, inquiring gaze the eyes of wounded men often seem to wear. A first...
...mountain eyrie, 4,500 ft. up in the Alaouite Mountains and built like a Damascus house, TIME Correspondent Harry Zinder visited him, was treated to a gut-busting luncheon, long complimentary speeches, weird music and the sight of seven of his village lovelies prancing mightily as they sang in a throaty, minor key. Suleiman, despite his 18 wives, his 14 children and the fact that doctors give him only two more years because of fatty degeneration of the heart, beamed contentedly. Cabled Correspondent Zinder of Suleiman's lair: "Grim hills step giantlike across rich, fruitful valleys, their sides scarred...