Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Subject to further government restrictions, this year's tour will take about 50 of the Club's best singers on a four day trip through New Hampshire and Maine. As contrasted with last year's five-concert tour, the singers will probably give three performances in the White Mountain state, with a final appearance at Portland, Maine...
...mountain roads are a panorama of up-moving and down-moving transport. Here the Russians have utilized everything to get stuff up: even brown, shaggy Tibetan camels are lined through the valleys. Mules in stupid groups mingle on the road, slowing up U.S.-made trucks ably driven by Red Army drivers. The strange smell of Russian petrol is mixed with horse, mule and camel manure and the natural pleasantness of the hills...
...Australians at least had launched a little offensive-if retaking, against no opposition, a few miles of recently lost backyard could be dignified by that term. By last fortnight, when some Japs pushed southward across the precipitous Owen Stanley Mountain Range, the Japanese were only 32 miles from vital Port Moresby. Some uneasy observers began to believe the unpredictable Japs might try to take well-defended Port Moresby by land, using only the troops and supplies that could be hauled along the "impassable" one-man jungle-&-mountain path. It would be an audacious gesture, but Australian troops had already...
Wearing khaki uniforms dyed green, newly arrived crack Australian Imperial troops (including the famed "rats" who holed in for eight months at Tobruk) launched their little offensive last week. At mountain peak No. 3 (of the six between Port Moresby and the gap at the top of the range) they seeped through and outflanked the foremost Jap positions. But the Japs, softened by strafing and bombing raids, had already withdrawn...
When he took over the settlement, Baranov was left without a sailing ship. He built his own. He mixed native moss with hot pitch for calking, used mountain ash for hardwood. He set Russians and natives digging for coal and iron, made waterproof paint from whale oil and red ocher. His ship had three masts, two decks. For sails Baranov commandeered tents, trousers, jackets, sewed them into great sheets with seal gut thread...