Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...HANNA KOZASA Heart Mountain...
From a ranch in California's Romero Canyon last week, dark-haired, nine-year-old Marylynn Winkler watched the flight of a glider-towing plane. Suddenly the plane seemed to "break up in mid-air." Marylynn hurried over five miles of mountain and streams, found an injured Army sergeant and private. (Two others were dead.) In the mountain wilderness, Marylynn built a fire to keep the soldiers warm, stood by for five hours until the ambulance arrived. Then she found sapling poles for stretchers. Said Marylynn: "I just couldn't leave them alone and hurt like that." Said...
Backed into their corner of North Africa, Axis troops hacked and jabbed at Allied armies which were slowly, slowly closing in. The action was "minor," but it flared along the whole 500-mile front. Small opposing forces fought for position, struggled bitterly for mountain passes, railroad stations, strategic heights...
South of Malinovsky's Armies, in the north Caucasus, is another force, under General I. V. Tulienev, which last week captured the Maikop oil fields. Black-moustached, fun-loving General Tulienev is an expert in mountain warfare, often zips up to the front on skis...
...that is not all. Pote Garland, as close to a one-man track team as Harvard has known in years, enters the mountain troops, and will not be around this semester. The giant Sophomore, an end on the Crimson eleven, was a four-event winner in last spring's Yale meet, and local experts touted him as a future Al Blozis. Garland had done better than 49 feet in the shot...