Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ranging from the perpendicular faces of the Quincy quarries to the rugged features of the Old Man of the Mountain, the Mountaineering Club has been out on some of its favorite haunts every weekend since the beginning of Summer School. They started out on Rattlesnake Crags, near Quincy, but soon moved further afield to Cannon Mountain, New Hampshire...
Passenger. In Muskogee, Okla., Patrolman James Hunter arrested a drunk, made a routine search of his automobile, found a securely trussed mountain lion, alive, in the trunk compartment. The drunk remembered helping a friend catch it, but explained he had thought at the time he was seeing things...
...centuries sounded matins and vespers had been carried away, to be melted down for the Nazi war machine. Priceless icons, illuminated manuscripts handed down from Byzantine emperors, and religious treasures* had been gathered as loot and shipped to Berlin. These things had driven them, sick at heart, from beloved mountain valleys thick with arbutus and carefully laid out for the husbanding of vineyards and olive groves within sight of the slopes of Mt. Olympus and the plains of Troy. At the islands where their boat touched, peasants fed them and gave them shelter...
...being imported in decreasing amounts, 842,000 bags in April, 635,000 in May, 348,000 in June. Of the 10,594,715-bag quota, only 6,181,559 had been landed in 8½ months up to mid-June. Meantime Colombia's tasty mountain-grown coffee was imported to the tune of 330,991 bags last week, an alltime weekly record. Thus, for one week at least, Colombia beat Brazil 4-to-1, whereas the usual ratio is 2-to-1 in favor of Brazil. Imports of most Central American coffees are also...
Commanding a detachment of mountain troops in the first battle of Champagne (1915), he captured an important French position, forced a whole French brigade to retire. (Reward: Pour le Mérite, highest Prussian military decoration.) In 1917 Rommel distinguished himself against the Italians at the Isonzo. Recently the Germans, with characteristic tact, reminded their World War II allies by stating, in a radio sketch of his life, that Rommel "captured 9,000 Italian troops in less than half an hour...