Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drinks a wide variety of liquors, from national raki to good Scotch whiskey, but is more moderate now than in his younger days. He is still spry in friendly company, often takes to the dance floor to perform the Sarizeybek, a finger-snapping, foot-stomping Izmir mountain dance learned in his native village...
...Sargent lives in the Boston suburb of Brookline, is a bit of a bon vivant (old cheese, old china), something of a poet (he has published one volume). He attributes his real education to travel rather than Harvard (he sent Porter Jr. to North Carolina's experimental Black Mountain College), but enjoyed his Harvard post-graduate research in botany, zoology, neurology. After eight years of teaching at Cambridge's proper Browne & Nichols School, he spent a decade traveling in Europe and circling the globe five times with pupils of his unique Travel School for Boys...
...Economist analyzed Nazi plans. "The Germans clearly expect an onslaught from the southeast. For months now defense workers have been . . . fortifying the Greek coasts and some of the islands. ... In Bulgaria the mountain passes have recently been fortified. . . . [The Nazi] aim in the Balkans must be to defend Rumania for its oil and to prevent a break-through into the great plain of Central Europe. . . . The Germans can hope that the Allies, after exhausting themselves in expensive attacks on the outposts, would have to face a heavy counteroffensive from the air and heavily mechanized armies operating from well prepared...
Next to a mountain stream which runs down the steep slope were nine more bodies within a 25-yd. area. There were plenty of bullet clips in the little leather cases which hung on the wearers' belts. Near the bottom of the slope lay the body of a Japanese captain. His silk white handkerchief was centered by a lewd ink sketch. A couple of hundred yards down the valley we found a dead Japanese officer who carried, like most Japs, photographs of his wife and children. It had rained the previous night, so the officer's open mouth...
...found empty sea. She had now been at sea for three weeks. The 50 men of her crew were grim, bitter, tense. They could not smoke, waited in fixed dullness when the Clyde was submerged, chewed sweets. On the morning of June 20, the seas were running high. Mountain waves made it impossible to see at periscope depth. As the day wore on, a 30-mile-an-hour wind whipped a writhing sea. Under these most difficult conditions, the enemy hove into sight - two capital ships at two miles' separation, a destroyer screening them. Vision blotted out, the Clyde...