Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Communist General Vo Nguyen Giap's Chinese-trained and equipped army of some 40,000, supported by another army of ragged coolie carriers, was swarming through the valleys and mountain passes as fast as their bare feet could carry them. They came in three columns, from the east, northeast, and north. There was plenty of room: Laos, one of the two kingdoms in the Associated States of French Indo-China, is as big as Oregon. In a fortnight they advanced almost 150 miles, leaving behind them French mountain-top outposts abandoned, surrounded, or in smoldering ruins, their tiny garrisons...
Georgia is a proud and fiery republic on the Black Sea, abutting on Armenia and Turkey, where Asia and Europe meet. A mountain-girt southland, incorporated in the Soviet Union in 1921, and still resentful of it, Georgia gave Communism two of its mightiest sons: Joseph Djugashvili
...five-day tour of North African air bases, NATO Commander General Matthew B. Ridgway took time out to join a hunting party in the Atlas mountains organized by the Pasha of Marrakech. The trip's bag: 17 mountain goats...
...June 1952, Rinehart published his book, "The Butcher," an account of the first ascent of Peru's Mt. Yerupaja by a group of Stanford and Harvard students. The book, called "one of the great real-life dramas of mountain-climbing literature," was favorably reviewed everywhere...
Personality: Has the traditional qualities of a European diplomat-poise, humor, manners, good birth-but considers himself an economic "technician." Fastidious in his tastes, he is a reader of avant-garde poetry, and his apartment is lined with a Braque canvas and Matisse and Picasso drawings. Principal recreation: mountain-climbing in Northern Sweden...