Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pilot Warner knew it was bad too. It let him, his copilot, his 39 passengers and two stewardesses live just eight minutes longer. When the trouble struck, the DC-6 was not far from Sunbury. Minutes later, down to 900 feet, it was plunging through a valley, skimming a mountain, and apparently heading for a small airport at Shamokin. The runway was not long enough to take his 70,000-lb. ship, but the pilot might have risked a belly landing. Flyers there could not figure it out; the big plane's motors sounded all right and they...
Last year the government tried to pry Chen out of Shantung. It launched a big and costly offensive that plunged across Shantung to the seaport of Chefoo. Strafing Nationalist planes shot up his staff car, wounded Chen. His men were again driven into mountain hideouts...
...Pike was just a piker-he didn't even get to the top of his own mountain...
...Stirring Sound. As the presidential special rumbled down the Rocky Mountain grades into Butte, Harry Truman was a bitter, baffled man. But Butte's volatile and traditionally Democratic miners gave him a big hand. Forty thousand people lined the streets to cheer him, and 10,000 jammed a high-school stadium to hear him speak. Facing them, he suddenly dropped the folksy role he had been playing and launched a passionate and rashly phrased assault on the Republican Congress. He spoke savagely of G.O.P. Presidential Candidate Bob Taft: "I guess he'd let you starve...
...August, Jules Levin, B.S. in general engineering, will start work at Long Island's Brookhaven National Laboratory, researching in atomic energy. But meantime, Jules thought, he might go climb a mountain to relax...