Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...where the British plan a political federation opposed by the natives, or in Uganda or the Belgian Congo? In South Africa, the Negro-hating Boers use the Mau Mau's terror to win support for even more brutal suppression of the nonwhites. Kenya, the Land of the Shining Mountain, has become a smoldering ember in Africa. And the surrounding brush vast, white-run, black-populated, miles of it, is tinder...
...scarred little bantam with a calculating eye. But he was a pleasant and contemplative sort of fellow too. He had studied for the priesthood as a youth at the University of Münster, spoke English and Russian, was the author of a German book entitled Athos, the Holy Mountain. He gradually concluded that he wanted to live...
High federal taxes on liquor have produced a growing bootleg industry, and not all of it is hidden away in mountain valleys. Last week in Brooklyn, federal investigators made one of their biggest finds since prohibition days. Residents reported an aroma of mash in the wind and yeasty bubbles on the East River. Agents followed their noses to a two-story abandoned waterfront warehouse, climbed a six-foot metal fence, had a scuffle with a Doberman pinscher (which bit two of them), broke down three doors, and found a still which cost $50,000 to build. It could turn...
...high-school stars, frowned on the weekly pep luncheons of the Quarterback Club. Annual attendance at football games fell from 110,000 to 50,000, and at one game hit a low of 3,500. Last year things got so bad that D.U. lost every one of its seven Mountain States Conference games...
...former world champion; but at the young jumping age of 21, Riisnaes, a whisper-thin (6 ft. 1 in., 135 Ibs.), blue-eyed blond, is just as enthusiastic, and fast becoming as proficient as the famed Ruud brothers.*Last week, standing atop the towering (556 ft.) slide at Iron Mountain, Mich., Jon had "a little of what you call butterflies in the stomach." An exchange student (engineering) at the University of New Hampshire this year, he also had a tight-lipped determination to win the North American championship...