Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...puffed frostily, and baby-laden women walked beside them with chattering teeth. It was not yet dawn, and chilly, but on the mountain paths leading to Sanare. 4,400 ft. up in the western Venezuelan Andes, and on the rutty road leading to Sanare from the "outside." everyone was elated. Hardly a young man among the 5.000 travelers was not carrying a guitar, a violin or a pair of maracas (seed-filled gourds). Making up words as they went along, they sang...
Audiences in Baltimore and Washington were the first to sample the Agnes de Mille Dance Theatre, and they found it something like an intimate revue. One number among the evening's half a dozen or so, Hares on the Mountain, is an affectionately sardonic sketch of an old mountaineer who sings...
Young women, they'll run like hares on the mountain...
Q.E.D. In Twin Oaks, Calif., after Mountaineer George Taylor, 90, set the safety blocks and cranked his 1919 model T Ford, the car ran over him, headed down the mountain, caught fire, burned itself to a stop, drew from George a final farewell: "I never did trust those dern things...
...scene is a barren mountain area in southern Italy; the time, just after the liberation. Rocco de Donatis, the local Communist leader, is growing death-tired of party lines. "You have the sadness," an old woman tells him, "of one who set out to go very far and ends up by finding himself where he began. Didn't they teach you at school that the world is round...