Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shine on the grass on the right side in lining up a putt, I play to the right even if I don't see a break in the green in that direction ... I know the grain is running from right to left." CJ "When playing mountain courses, remember that putts will always break away from the mountains. That is true, even if in 'reading the greens' it doesn't look that way to you." On courses near the seas, the greens break seaward. Reason: drainage...
Over the Ponte Fabricio to Tiberina Island moved a long file of brown Franciscan nuns, the rustling of their robes lost in the rushing Tiber below. Soon solitary groups swelled into crowds; the tide of people stirred all over Italy-fishermen with bare, brown ankles and ruddy-faced mountain men and pale white-collar workers and factory hands with red kerchiefs and robed bishops and small-town women with babies in their arms. In many churches, Mass times were shifted so that the faithful would find it easier to reach the polls when they opened at 8. Priests read...
Last week an old man called "Barba," a patriarch of the mountain town of Kalav-ryta, sighed and said: "The blood my family has shed in Kalavryta would fill three whole barrels...
After the war, the town was partly rebuilt. New people came from the countryside; the population rose toward the prewar level. Kalavryta still had its beautiful springs and its luminous mountain...
...pitched camp. There they left their three porters and pushed upward into the mists. Whether they reached the top will probably never be known; they were never seen again. In 1933, the Marquess of Clydesdale (now the Duke of Hamilton) made the first flight over the mountain...