Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until he reached middle age, he persisted in his favorite sport of mountain climbing. Then one day, as he was descending a dangerous peak, his rope jammed, and he went plunging downward to dangle helplessly over a deep chasm. "For 20 minutes I could not move," Alcide de Gasped recalled later. "Then I swung over to a ridge and was safe. Well, I was 54 then, and I decided I had better give up climbing. But looking back, it had been a good school for political fighting...
Both politics and mountain climbing seemed unlikely pursuits for a man like De Gasperi. Tall and lanky, he was plagued by bad health. He was an inept organizer, a rambling, self-conscious speaker. He had chilly, blue eyes and a wide mouth that even in repose seemed compressed in grim disapproval. But underneath, De Gasperi had a mountain man's flint-hard resolution and a devout Christian's sense of integrity. These qualities made him the greatest man in postwar Italy and helped him revive a nation that had almost died from an overdose of political bombast...
...against McKay rather than his opponent. In Washington, two Republican Congressmen (Walt Horan and Russell Mack) have disassociated themselves from McKay's policy. In Oregon, McKay's own state, he is blamed for the shortage of kilowatts which requires dimouts. The Oregon issue is as clear as mountain air: a victory for Journalist Dick Neuberger, the Democratic senatorial candidate, would be a stinging defeat, not just for Republican Senator Guy Cordon, but for McKay and Administration policy...
...pilgrims hustled past her premises and up the nearest mountain to the little (pop. 643) village of Castel San Pietro Romano. For there the rumor had it, a goddess enchantingly more substantial had suddenly come to earth among the amorous groves. Gina Lollobrigida (pronounced low-low-bridge-id-ah) was in town to make a movie...
Many of the 130 paintings were as esoteric to the ordinary visitor as Chinese calligraphy. Among the most popular were the great Sung master Ma Yiian's fan-shaped Two Sages and an Attendant Under a Plum Tree, and a misty mountain-and-river scene in black ink and dainty colors, like dilute pastels, by the lyth century master...