Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the winter lasts, every weekend is festival time on Montreal's Mount Royal. Up the snow-cloaked mountain, rising from the heart of the city, youngsters pull sleds and toboggans (which early Canadians copied from the Micmac Indians). Skiers plod up through the powdery snow. A few, bundled under buffalo robes, ride up grandly in bright red carrioles behind teams of steaming horses...
...when the case reached the Supreme Court, the genie suddenly grew to enormous size. The Court held that Judge Picard was wrong, that all makeready and walking time on company property had to be paid for. Suddenly, the genie of portal-to-portal pay hovered, mountain high, not only over small Mt. Clemens Pottery, but over all industry. The oracular Court gave a hint, however, on how the monster might be lured back into the bottle. Under the legal doctrine of de minimis ("the law does not concern itself with trifles"), all small amounts of makeready time were...
Baseball, after passing through its only great scandal in 1919, appointed the late Kennesaw Mountain Landis as its all-powerful "czar," and for two decades his iron hand kept baseball's escutcheon spotless. Now would seem an appropriate time for all professional sports to choose together a joint ruling committee with similar vast regulatory powers, and thus aid in keeping the final outcome of all sporting events in doubt for all the spectators...
...barracks at the foot of Fujiyama, they found an old straw sandal, a chopstick and a rusty can (Japanese lacking Kusunose's peculiar sense of honor had long since looted everything else). The searchers also found Kusunose's body. But it no longer faced the sacred mountain. Before he died, Kusunose had found the "strength to turn away. The diary explained why: "It would be disrespectful if I died in the presence of revered Fuji...
...thing they do know: that a belt of crustal uneasiness surrounds the entire Pacific Ocean. The Pacific's shores are nearly all high and rugged, decorated with volcanoes or with young (a mere 100,000,000 years or so), still growing mountain ranges which shake periodically like custard on a plate. Atlantic shores, much calmer, are mostly old and stable...