Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...club's purpose, "to help club members get more climbing experience," is a bit misleading. Almost all of the men on the trip will be soundly versed in the wiles of mountain climbing, according to club President Harry Francis, who will participate. Francis himself led an expedition to Alaska's 20,000 foot Mt. McKinley last summer...
...Sincere thanks for the wonderful story on Paul Rusch and his KEEP* project for Japan's isolated mountain people [TIME, March 9]. No archbishop has been half as effective (in Japan, at least) as Colonel Rusch in making a mixed group . . . work at such speed for the growth of Christianity in that defeated land...
...Moving Mountain. It is a sharp break with Luther's 16th century political theories to contemplate a church virtually in continual tension with the state. But in 1953 Martin Luther's church is stronger, better equipped for this task, and more aware of it than ever before. Of the world's 68.5 million Lutherans, 41.6 million of them are in Germany, the rest principally in the U.S. and the Scandinavian countries. U.S. Lutherans, especially since 1945, have made a good deal of contact with their German brethren. Besides contributing some $24 million to German church welfare funds...
...consider a church union. At a crucial moment in a long and stalemated discussion, Dibelius got up to preach. His text was Ezekiel 37:22: "And I will make them one nation." And, as he puts it, it was the one sermon of his life that "moved a mountain." The delegates went on to push through the constitution of the Evanglische Kirche in Deutschland (E.K.D.)-the Evangelical Church of Germany. Dibelius, as the leading representative of the Protestant Germany, was elected chairman of its executive council...
Around this molehill of fact, the picture builds a mountain of melodramatic fiction about a weather team headed by hard-boiled Chief Petty Officer Richard Widmark. When Japanese planes bomb out the weather station, Widmark and his men set out for the sea on an 800-mile trek across the desert. On the way, they encounter vicious Japanese, treacherous Chinese camel traders, and lariatswinging nomad tribesmen on Mongol ponies...