Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...storm smacked the tip end of Haiti's long, southern peninsula, neatly avoiding its mountain barriers, and danced disastrously across some of the island's most heavily populated areas. At Dame-Marie, floods and high winds killed 40; the towns of Jeremie and Aux Cayes were largely unroofed. The International Red Cross estimated that too people were dead and 100,000 homeless after the storm's brief passage. But Haiti foresaw as the storm's worst effect months of starvation for remote, hand-to-mouth villagers, whose subsistence crops of bananas and plantains were ruined...
...chubbers, first organized as the DOC in 1909, have split into various sub-groups. The three major subsidiaries are Winter Sports, which sponsors the College ski team, Cabin and trail, which maintains a chain of mountain hostels, and a Carnival division. In addition, there are the Ledyard Canoe club, the Ski Patrol, the Mountaineering club, and Bait and Bullet...
...Karl A. Hill, Assistant Dean of Tuck puts it, "by a full awareness of our responsibilities to 6Even the oarsmen at Hanover are "cnubbers" of a sort. Here they are snown carrying their shall and cars to the Connecticut River for a long dally pull. The woods and mountain surrounding Dartmouth lend themselves as well to the various activities of the outdoor groups...
...Moanin' Low to higher-brow efforts: American folk music, serious drama. In 1945 her second husband, Actor Ralph Holmes, died from an overdose of sleeping pills. Five years later Topper, who had become a popular, intelligent youth and the center of Libby's life, died in a mountain-climbing accident on Mount Whitney (TIME...
Neutrons with Goldfish. There was much to appreciate. Fermi emerges from the book as alte'rnately serious and gay, abstracted but practical. He is modest about major accomplishments (his dis coveries in physics), vain about minor ones (his physical endurance in mountain climbing). His wife plainly worships him, but laughs at him just enough to keep him human. She tells how one of his crucial experiments on slow neutrons was carried on in a fountain among unsuspecting gold fish. She giggles gently at his troubles with unruly shirtfronts. She pokes friendly fun at his brilliant friends (who called Fermi...