Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese are able to pass in parade. These must then make their way over deserts such as no armies have ever heretofore crossed; scale the intrenched and stupendous heights that form the redoubts of the desert moats; attempting, in the valor of their ignorance, the militarily impossible; turning mountain gorges into the ossuaries of their dead, and burdening the desert winds with the spirits of the slain." At this point Admiral Yamamoto would take a trip to the White House...
Before breakfast was over, women would start thinking about their dinners. The big dish would be turkey or goose or, in the Rocky Mountain States, perhaps venison. In New England there would be squash and plum pudding, in the South rice and yams, in Texas a big cut-glass bowl of homemade, ruby-red agarita jelly...
...fretted over Dumbo's characterization and form, had about decided to give him a head shaped like a human's when Artist Vladimir ("Bill") Tytla asserted himself. Dark, ponderous Tytla is generally assigned to the "heavies," created the devil-giant for Fantasia's Night on Bald Mountain. Since he was doing the big elephants, he had to draw a Dumbo stand-in for the sequence in which Mrs. Jumbo receives her baby via stork...
...build Grand Central's record-breaking photomural the Treasury Department turned to Washington's Farm Security Administration, whose energetic photography head, onetime Economics Instructor Roy Stryker, has spent eight years getting every aspect of U.S. rural life photographed for FSA's mountainous camera files. Department Chief Stryker and his assistants looked at 15,000 prints before they found the perfect 20. Then they took a face from one photograph, a sky or a piece of building from another, joined them together like pieces of a mosaic, and enlarged the results until they were several times life size...
...Denver's Rocky Mountain Radio Council, a cooperative organization of regional stations and colleges, was honored for progress toward "freeing the local station from its inert attitude of reliance on either network programs or transcriptions...