Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sure Do." Last week Gus arrived in New York, a tall, weather-tough man with crinkled eyes and a face reddened in the high mountain winds. He proudly donned his postmasters' convention badge, dutifully attended the sessions, listened gravely as Postmaster General Jesse M. Donaldson declared that the post office faced a record $550 million deficit, that Congress should overhaul its "horse & buggy rates." Penny postcards, Donaldson pointed out, cost the department 2.6? to print, sell, and handle, and 95% of them are sold to advertisers who flood the mails with them "by the billions." Gus nodded soberly...
Gopher Holes. Gus is unmarried. "Last time I asked a girl to be my wife, she said, 'Can I get down that mountain to see a show every night?' When I said no, she said 'No.' " His office is in a corner of the depot. Gus explained: "I've got a table and two chairs. Nothing to lock up except the cash drawer, and I wouldn't do that except you're supposed to." During the war, though, Marshall Pass had a brush with the enemy. Said Gus: "I don't like...
...Theory. Bingham is convinced that the city he found is older, perhaps a thousand years older, than Cuzco, which dates from about 1100. To this spot, he believes, the pre-Inca ruler Pachacuti retreated before Amazonian hordes. On the mountain terraces, the pre-inca civilization survived to go forth with manco, the first Inca, to Cuzco and the far-flung empire (Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador) that the Spaniards found. To this peak the last Incas fled to live out their days in cloudswept palaces that no white man saw till, in 1911, Hiram Bingham found them...
...landscapes," Hopkinson explained I'm concerned with the flow of line in a mountain or a tree-the gesture of the thing." To capture it he works even faster than most watercolorists, using fluid and staccato strokes of vibrant color, but unlike more abstract moderns he never lets "the gesture of the thing" obscure the thing itself. "Being a sentimentalist, I want to get across the pleasure of what I see in nature...
...until August 1 did the air lift come through. The group climbed to high camp to get it, and then split into two groups. Fix and Bell took their surveying tools up Remote Mountain, while the others started to scale Hardship, Privation, and Ribbon...